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Tiny terror [electronic resource]

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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 new vol

Title Tiny terror [electronic resource] : why Truman Capote (almost) wrote Answered prayers / William Todd Schultz.
Edition 1st ed.
Publisher New York : Oxford University Press
Creation Date 2011
Notes Description based upon print version of record.
Includes bibliographical references and index.
English
Content 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.
Series Inner lives series
Extent 1 online resource (198 p.)
Language English
National Library system number 997010704996605171
MARC RECORDS
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