| Answered Prayers Contributor(s): Capote, Truman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0679751823 ISBN-13: 9780679751823 Publisher: Vintage
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions 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. Click for more in this series: Vintage International |
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| 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" L (0.35 lbs) 176 pages |
| Features: Price on Product |
| Review Citations: New Yorker (The) 04/20/2009 pg. 104 |
| 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. |
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