Answered Prayers

P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this unfinished novel. He discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. He discovers along the way that prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.

ISBN 0141185937   Weight (grammes) 148 ISBN13 9780141185934 (What's this?)   Published in London Publisher Penguin Books Ltd   Series editor Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam, Phillips, Adam Imprint Penguin Classics   Series title Penguin Modern Classics Format Paperback   Height (mm) 198 Publication date 25 Oct 2001   Width (mm) 129 DEWEY 813.54   Spine width (mm) 11 DEWEY edition DC21   Academic level General Pages 192

"A gift from an unbridled genius. Exciting...irresistible...should be cherished as top-flight work from a master." -- Los Angeles Times Book Review 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. As it follows 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 Cote 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 funny book displays Capote at his most relentlessly observant and murderously witty. "Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly... inspired." -- The New York Times Book Review

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