One of NY Post’s Must-Have Books for Fall 2021 One of NY Post’s 35 Best Book Gifts for Everyone on Your 2021 Holiday List Laurence Leamer re-creates the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever.
While enjoying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel…one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends.įor years, Capote attempted to write Answered Prayers, what he believed would have been his magnum opus. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and startling way possible.īestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer’s block. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy’s sister)-they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. “There are certain women,” Truman Capote wrote, “who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.” Barbara “Babe” Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers-the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his "swans."
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