num_pages: 150
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.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.
language: English
title: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
titlecomplete: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
characters: Alice Lee Langman, Lady Ina Coolbirth, Aces Nelson, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Ned Rorem, P.B. Jones, Carol Matthau, Turner Boatwright, Sidney Dillon, Victoria Self, Denham Fouts, Kate McCloud
genres: 20th Century, American, Short Stories, New York, Literary Fiction, Novels, Queer, Literature, Classics, Fiction
ratings_count: 4479
places: New York City, New York
publisher: Vintage Books