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Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era
By Leamer, Laurence
- ISBN
- 9780593328088
- Publisher
- Putnam
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Reviewed on November 5, 2021 | Social Sciences
Perhaps biographer Leamer (The Kennedy Women: The Saga of an American Family) has found the missing aspect of Truman Capote's last work—that being Capote himself. Leamer's work begins as an effort to examine the subjects and substance of Capote's famed, unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, but it's ultimately an examination of Capote's obsessions. Capote's "swans" were women of unbelievable ability and self-understanding whose wealth, taste, and scandals fed ...Log In or Sign Up to Read More
