Answered Prayers |
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Author:
| Capote, Truman |
Series title: | Contemporary Fiction, Plume Ser. |
ISBN: | 978-0-452-26483-0 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1988 |
Publisher: | Penguin Publishing Group
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Imprint: | Plume |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $11.95 |
Book Description:
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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 Cote Basque, from literary salons to highpriced 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...
More DescriptionAs 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 Cote Basque, from literary salons to highpriced 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.