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. • Includes the story
La Cote Basque
featured in the major FX series
Feud: Capote Vs. the Swans.
"Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly." —
The New York Times Book Review
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 funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.