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Capote's women : a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era / Laurence Leamer.
"New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans.""-- Provided by publisher.
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- ISBN: 9780593328088 (hardcover)
- Physical Description: x, 356 pages, 8 unnumbered pages of plates : illustrations ; 24 cm
- Publisher: New York : G. P. Putnam's Sons, [2021]
- Copyright: ©2021
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| Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references and index. |
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| Genre: | Biographies. |
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- 1 of 1 copy available at Tsuga Consortium.
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- Baker & Taylor
This look at Capoteâs never-published final novel Answered Prayers shows how the few chapters that were published in Esquire affected his friendships and standing in the society with the rich women whose lives he fictionalized in his work. - Baker & Taylor
"New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers--the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayalof the group of female friends he called his "swans.""-- - Penguin Putnam
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New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayersâthe dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans."
âThere are certain women,â Truman Capote wrote, âwho, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.â Barbara âBabeâ Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedyâs sister)âthey were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and startling way possible.
Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffanyâs in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writerâs block. While enÂjoying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel…one based on the reÂmarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends.
For years, Capote attempted to write AnÂswered Prayers, what he believed would have been his magnum opus. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest feÂmale confidantes were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever. Laurence Leamer re-creates the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
