Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote [FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING] 1988 • Plume

Answered Prayers - The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote 

FIRST PAPERBACK PRINTING [1988] PLUME BOOKS

Vintage trade paperback in excellent condition; light shelf wear / tanning.

Contains the inspiration for the Ryan Murphy series SWANS.

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.