Although Truman Capote\'s last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time.
Above all, this malevolently finny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty..
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.
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 C te Basque, from literary salons to high-priced whorehouses.
Although Truman Capote\'s last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time