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  2. Answered Prayers - Wikipedia

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    The first chapter ("Unspoiled Monsters") chronicles the "picaresque" exploits of P.B. Jones, a young writer (enmeshed in the process of writing a novel, Answered Prayers) and "bisexual hustler" who "beds men and women alike if they can further his literary career" in the 1940s New York literary milieu; accordingly, both Katherine Anne Porter ...

  3. Ann Woodward - Wikipedia

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    In one of the excerpts from Answered Prayers published in Esquire magazine, "La Côte Basque 1965", Capote writes about a character named Ann Hopkins, a bigamist and gold digger who shoots her husband, based on Woodward's killing of her husband, implying that it was murder. [8] [7] [36] The released excerpts caused a wave of gossip.

  4. Music for Chameleons - Wikipedia

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    In the preface of the collection, Capote claims to have suffered a drug and alcohol-induced nervous breakdown in 1977, at which point he ceased working on his highly anticipated follow-up to In Cold Blood, Answered Prayers, portions of which had elicited a riotous reaction in the jet set when excerpted in Esquire magazine throughout 1975 and 1976.

  5. What Ever Happened to Truman Capote’s 'Answered Prayers ...

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    Answered Prayers, his so-called “magnum opus,” was published after Capote’s death in 1984, but it only contained parts of his manuscript. The original, completed version was never found.

  6. Truman Capote - Wikipedia

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    The catty beginning to his still-unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, was the catalyst of Capote's social suicide. Many of Capote's circle of high-society female friends, whom he called his "swans", were featured in the text, some under pseudonyms and others by their real names.

  7. Denham Fouts - Wikipedia

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    Truman Capote's "Unspoiled Monsters", contained in his Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel, is based on Capote's conception of Fouts' life. [15] Gore Vidal's short story "Pages from an Abandoned Journal", contained in his 1956 work A Thirsty Evil: Seven Short Stories is based on Fouts' life. [15] Vidal was introduced to Fouts by John Lehmann ...

  8. Slim Keith - Wikipedia

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    Slim Keith was born Mary Raye Gross in Salinas, California to Edward Gross and Raye Nell Boyer Gross (who later changed Mary's name to Nancy). Her father was a successful businessman who owned several canneries in nearby Monterey.

  9. La Côte Basque - Wikipedia

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    Truman Capote's unfinished novel Answered Prayers includes a catty luncheon among thinly veiled socialites in the chapter "La Côte Basque 1965", first published in Esquire magazine in 1975. [3] [4] A scene from the film Light Sleeper features Willem Dafoe and Susan Sarandon eating lunch in the restaurant. [5]