Answered Prayers
  • Published:
    Aug-1987 (Hardcover)
    Mar-1994 (Paperback)
  • Formats:
    Print / eBook
  • Main Genre:
    General Fiction
  • Pages:
    176
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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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    •  
    • Apr-1994
    • Vintage
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0679751823
    • ISBN13: 9780679751823
    •  
    • Sep-1988
    • Plume
    • Paperback
    • ISBN: 0452261376
    • ISBN13: 9780452261372
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    • Nov-2001
    • Penguin (UK)
    • Trade Paperback
    • ISBN: 0141185937
    • ISBN13: 9780141185934
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    • Aug-1987
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0394556453
    • ISBN13: 9780394556451
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    • Jan-2024
    • Random House
    • Hardcover
    • ISBN: 0593731107
    • ISBN13: 9780593731109
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    • May-2012
    • Ballantine
    • eBook
    • ISBN: 0345803043
    • ISBN13: 9780345803047



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