Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers

by William Todd Schultz

Book Overview

Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood . What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote's last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his "swans." When excerpts appeared he was...

• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0199752044
• ISBN13: 9780199752041
• Release Date: April 2011
• Publisher: Oxford University Press
• Length: 208 Pages
• Weight: 0.86 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.9" x 5.1" x 7.1"