Name: Answered Prayers
SKU: 1549332
Price: 14.51 EUR
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Author: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780679751823

Type

Physical Book

Author

Truman Capote

Publisher

Vintage International. Random House

Year

1994

Language

English

Pages

150

Format

Paperback

Weight

ISBN

0679751823

ISBN13

9780679751823

Edition No.

Synopsis "Answered Prayers"

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. - Includes the story La Cote Basque featured in the major FX series Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans. "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.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer, journalist, and screenwriter, known for his innovative style and his ability to blend literature with journalism. His most influential work is In Cold Blood (1966), considered one of the first non-fiction novels, in which he narrates the murder of a family in Kansas.

Among his other notable works are Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), a short novel that inspired the famous movie of the same name, and Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), his literary debut. Capote primarily wrote novels, short stories, and investigative chronicles, characterized by their psychological depth and elegant prose. His legacy continues in contemporary literature.

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