Answered prayers
the unfinished novel
1st Vintage international ed.
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Author
Publication
1994 - Vintage Books, New York, New York (State)
Language
English
Word Count
45,000 words, Guess
Page Count
180 pages
Identifiers
- Internet Archiveansweredprayers00trum
- ISBN-100679751823
- ISBN-139780679751823
- Goodreads2288
- Library of Congress Control Number93043496
and 3 more
- Library of Congress Control Number2012462431
- Better World Books9780679751823
- Open LibraryOL1431991M
Classifications
- DDC813/.54
- LCCPS3505.A59 A83 1994
- LCCPS3505.A59 A83 2012
and 1 more
- LCCPS3505.A59A83 1994
Description
RESUMEN: El protagonista de la novela ingenioso, encantador, bisexual, absolutamente amoral logró escaparse de un orfanato a los trece años, aprendió el oficio de masajista y se las ingenió para convertirse en un pícaro moderno y codearse con los ricos y los famosos, desempeñando unas veces el papel de confidente, otras el de bufón y, para los lectores de esta novela, el de divertidísimo cronista de las disparatadas vidas de la jet-set. Este libro es, en buena parte, un roman à clef y, a veces, ni siquiera necesita claves, pues por sus páginas desfilan junto a retratos tenuemente disfrazados de escritores como Tennessee Williams, actrices como Greta Garbo, millonarios como Niarchos, personajes reales, como las inefables Mrs. Mathau y Mrs. Cooper, cuyos diálogos sobre la vida y costumbres (preferentemente sexuales) de otros miembros de la alta sociedad están reproducidos con cruel fidelidad. Although Truman Capote's last, unfinished novel offers a devastating group portrait of the high and low society of his time. 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.
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