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Answered Prayers

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

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Paperback $15.00

Mar 29, 1994 | ISBN 9780679751823

Hardcover $26.00

Jan 02, 2024 | ISBN 9780593731109

Ebook $11.99

May 15, 2012 | ISBN 9780345803047

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    About 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.

    “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.

    About Answered Prayers

    Truman Capote’s unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through the public and Capote’s own social circle.  

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

    Catapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite.  

    Though Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into sumptuous business offices, bohemian bars inhabited by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the trendiest restaurants, where the tables are arranged by the social status of their occupants. Jones’s days and nights are a riptide of dysfunctional dinner parties and hobnobbing with drunken heiresses, accompanied by a carousel of legendary female characters who populated Capote’s own life, among them Colette, Jackie Kennedy, and the Duchess of Windsor. Indeed, Answered Prayers teems with the real-life secrets and confessions of Capote’s most trusted friends, and these pages, when first published as a magazine serial, astounded readers but betrayed his confidantes, banishing him from the exclusive circle that was once his.   

    Unrestrained and irreverent, Answered Prayers renders a carnival of wealth and influence so unthinkable that it satirizes itself—with the inimitable wit of one of the twentieth century’s most celebrated writers.

    About 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.

    “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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    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    Product Details

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $15.00
    Published by Vintage
    Mar 29, 1994 | 176 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679751823

    Category: Literary Fiction | Fiction Classics

    Hardcover | $26.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Jan 02, 2024 | 176 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780593731109

    Category: Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    May 15, 2012 | 208 Pages | ISBN 9780345803047
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    “A gift from an unbridled genius. Exciting … irresistible … should be cherished as top-flight work from a master.” —Los Angeles Times Book Review

    “Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly… inspired.” —The New York Times Book Review

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