An edition of Answered Prayers (1986)

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An edition of Answered Prayers (1986)

Answered Prayers

  • 5.0 (1 rating) ·
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  • 2 Currently reading
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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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Plume
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English
Pages
210

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1987, Random House
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Answered prayers: the unfinished novel
1986, Hamish Hamilton
in English
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Answered prayers: the unfinished novel
1986, Random House
in English - 1st ed.

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Contemporary Fiction, Plume

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OL7590373M
Internet Archive
answeredprayersc00trum
ISBN 10
0452264839
ISBN 13
9780452264830
Library Thing
845041
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1041174

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