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Truman Capote’s last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time, and inspired the real events portrayed in the second season of Feud : Capote vs. The Swans
A brilliantly malicious expose of the literary jet-set, when Answered Prayers first appeared in excerpts in Esquire magazine it outraged Capote's society friends, who recognized thinly veiled portraits of themselves in these scandalous fictional 'memoirs'.
P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this great, unfinished novel, who discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati - only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remained ignored.
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.
Author: Truman Capote
Paperback Published 29 March 1994 176 pages
"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