| Answered Prayers Contributor(s): Capote, Truman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679751823 ISBN-13: 9780679751823 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $13.50 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: March 1994 Annotation: 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 Cote Basque, from literary salons to highpriced 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. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Classics - Fiction | Humorous - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 2012462431 |
| Series: Vintage International |
| Physical Information: 0.6" H x 5.1" W x 7.9" (0.35 lbs) 176 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: 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. |