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Capote's women, a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era, Laurence Leamer

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Capote's women, a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era, Laurence Leamer

Language

eng

Bibliography note

Includes bibliographical references (pages 519-529)

Index

no index present

Literary Form

non fiction

Main title

Capote's women

Nature of contents

bibliography

Responsibility statement

Laurence Leamer

Sub title

a true story of love, betrayal, and a swan song for an era

Summary

Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill-- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote-- and infuriated him as well. He befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and then betrayed them in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes. Leamer shows that, in the late 1960s, Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block; Answered Prayers was supposed to be his magnum opus but instead banished Capote from high-society forever. -- adapted from back cover

Table Of Contents

Answered Prayers -- Babe in the Woods -- Lilies of the Valley -- Slim Pickings -- The Marital Game -- The Notorious Mrs. C -- A Tub of Butter -- Gloria in Excelsis -- "She Is" -- A Guest in the House -- A Time of Reckoning -- Only Maids Fall in Love -- Divided Lives -- Princess from an Ancient Realm -- Fairy Tales -- Everything -- "Naaaah, They're Too Dumb" -- The Good Pocket -- Afterword -- The Swans

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