Answered Prayers, Paperback

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Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. 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 Cote 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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Truman Capote

scriitor american (1924-1984)

Truman Capote, născut Truman Streckfus Persons, a fost un scriitor și scenarist american. Începuturile carierei sale scriitoricești se leagă de literatura gotică sudistă, grăitor în acest sens fiind romanul Alte glasuri, alte încăperi.