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Title: Answered Prayers : The Unfinished Novel by Truman Capote ISBN: 0-679-75182-3 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.64 (14 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Capote's unfinished masterpiece
Comment: If the complete novel had ever been published, "Answered Prayers" would have been no doubt Truman Capote's masterpiece. The novel is nothing like "In Cold Blood" or "Other Voices, Other Rooms." The novel is autobiographical and details the lives of socialites and endless parties. Capote was very familiar with this lifestyle. He was a regular on the New York City and L.A. party circuit. All of Capote's escapades can be read about in Gerald Clarke's biography "Capote." "Answered Prayers" was worked on for more than twenty years, and it's ashamed that no more of the book was found after Capote's death in 1984. "Answered Prayers" is Capote's masterpiece.
Rating: 5
Summary: Unanswered
Comment: First of all, let me say this: I am a Truman Capote fanatic, an absolute Truman Capote maniac. I read "Answered Prayers" when I was in the 11th grade, and I was so angry that he died before he could finish it. I devour Capote's work as though it were an edible delicacy, or as though it were a lunar eclipse, something that is so incredibly rare, something to be cherished by all. I love "Answered Prayers" because it is like a man spilling secrets about his high-class, muckety-muck friends. Damaging secrets, secrets that we all knew they would refute, though we knew they were true. Secrets like Montgomery Clift's homosexuality. This book was rather vulgar, depicting Capote's wilder side, the Capote side that rages like a forest fire, rages unchecked. Read this book, do yourself a favor, read this book.
~Steven Harvey
Rating: 4
Summary: Moments of brilliance, moments of ugliness
Comment: In my opinion, the first chapter of this book, 'Unspoiled Monsters' is superb and worthy of anyone's attention that is interested in Capote. The following two chapters are less focused, and while they are at times memorable, they come off more as a nasty, grotesque end-note to the author's glittery life amongst the literati and heterosexual rich.
This book is worth owning to complete your Capote collection, but don't expect too much.
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Title: Truman Capote: In Which Various Friends, Enemies, Acquaintences and Detractors Recall His Turbulent Career by George Plimpton, George Plimpton ISBN: 0385491735 Publisher: Bantam Books Pub. Date: 10 November, 1998 List Price(USD): $16.95 |
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Title: Other Voices, Other Rooms by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745645 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Music for Chameleons by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745661 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 29 March, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: The Grass Harp by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745572 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 28 September, 1993 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote ISBN: 0679745580 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 01 February, 1994 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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