num_pages: 180
description: 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 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.
language: English
title: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
titlecomplete: Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel
characters: Aces Nelson, Ned Rorem, Kate McCloud, Alice Lee Langman, Gloria Vanderbilt Cooper, Victoria Self, Sidney Dillon, Lady Ina Coolbirth, Denham Fouts, Carol Matthau, Turner Boatwright, P.B. Jones
genres: 20th Century, Literature, Novels, Short Stories, Classics, Queer, Fiction, Literary Fiction, New York, American
ratings_count: 4480
places: New York City, New York
publisher: New Amer Library