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Answered Prayers

The Unfinished Novel
PaperbackPaperback
Ranking1199776inBelletristik
CHF19.90

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Truman Capotes gnadenlose Abrechnung mit der Welt der Reichen und Schönen

Truman Capote zeichnet in diesem Romanfragment ein schonungsloses Bild der amerikanischen High Society. Er schildert das Leben von P.B. Jones, einem Schoßhündchen der Reichen und Schönen, und blickt dabei hinter die Kulissen von deren Welt. Als erste Kapitel dieses Schlüsselromans Mitte der Siebzigerjahre im Magazin Esquire vorabgedruckt wurden, erkannten sich Capotes berühmte Freunde in zahlreichen Romanfiguren wieder, samt ihrer intimsten Geheimnisse - vom Seitensprung bis zum vertuschten Mord. Der Skandal war perfekt.
Das Buch, das den größten Literaturskandal seiner Zeit auslöste.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 finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty.
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ISBN/GTIN978-0-679-75182-3
Product TypePaperback
BindingPaperback
Publishing date15/04/1994
EditionTrade Paperback
Pages176 pages
LanguageEnglish
SizeWidth 126 mm, Height 198 mm, Thickness 14 mm
Weight152 g
Article no.1684475
CatalogsBuchzentrum
Data source no.9021299
Product groupBelletristik
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Author

Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to international prominence in 1948 with the publication of his debut novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms. Among his celebrated works are Breakfast at Tiffany s, A Tree of Night, The Grass Harp, Summer Crossing, A Christmas Memory, and In Cold Blood, widely considered one of the greatest books of the twentieth century. Twice awarded the O. Henry Short Story Prize, Capote was also the recipient of a National Institute of Arts and Letters Creative Writing Award and an Edgar Award. He died August 25, 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.