Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
Although Truman Capote's last novel was unfinished at the time of his death, its surviving portions offer a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.
As it follows the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a louche bar in Tangiers to a banquette at La Côte Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses. It takes in calculating beauties and sadistic husbands along with such real-life supporting characters as Colette, the Duchess of Windsor, Montgomery Clift, and Tallulah Bankhead. Above all, this malevolently funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
- Author
- Truman Capote
- Format
- paperback
- Pages
- 150
- Publisher
- Vintage Books
- Language
- english
- ISBN
- 9780679751823
- Characters
- P.B. Jones, Turner Boatwright, Alice Lee Langman, Kate McCloud, Denham Fouts
- Settings
- New York City, New York
- Genres
- fiction, classics, american, literature, novels
- Release date
- 1994
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