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Answered Prayers

Answered Prayers

The Unfinished Novel

Truman Capote

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.Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly. --The New York Times Book ReviewTracing the career of a writer of uncertain parentage and omnivorous erotic tastes, Answered Prayers careens from a lo...

Editorial:
Vintage
Año de edición:
1994
ISBN:
978-0-679-75182-3
Páginas:
180
Q. 160
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Sinopsis

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.

Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly. --The New York Times Book Review

Tracing 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 finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.

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