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Author Schultz, William Todd.

Title Tiny terror : why Truman Capote (almost) wrote Answered prayers / William Todd Schultz.

Publication Info. New York : Oxford University Press, [2011]
©2011

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Description 1 online resource (xxi, 175 pages).
Physical Medium polychrome
Description text file
Series Inner lives series
Inner lives.
Bibliography Includes bibliographical references and index.
Contents Consistently inconsistent consistency -- Snake's nest of no's -- Leaving the boy behind -- Mind of a murderer -- Frying fancy fish -- Preparations for the scaffold of a personality portrait.
Summary 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 immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled--disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In Tiny Terror, a.
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Subject Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 -- Psychology.
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984.
Psychology.
Capote, Truman, 1924-1984. Answered prayers.
Authors, American -- 20th century -- Biography.
Authors, American.
Chronological Term 20th century
Genre/Form Biographies.
Subject Psychoanalysis and literature -- United States.
Psychoanalysis and literature.
United States.
Genre/Form Electronic books.
Biographies.
Other Form: Print version: Schultz, William Todd. Tiny terror. New York : Oxford University Press, 2011 9780199752041 (DLC) 2010037233 (OCoLC)664673190
ISBN 9780199830640 (electronic book)
0199830649 (electronic book)
9780199752041
0199752044