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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. 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.

  4. 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.

  5. Slim Keith - Wikipedia

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    Keith banished Capote from her life when he used her as the unflattering model for the fictional Lady Coolbirth of his infamous and unfinished Answered Prayers (eventually published as Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel in 1986 [5]). In 1975, excerpts from his unfinished novel appeared in Esquire magazine. [6]

  6. Shrine of St. Joseph, St. Louis - Wikipedia

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    Known as "The Altar of Answered Prayers" because of its origin, this beautiful work can still be seen at St. Joseph's Shrine, where it serves as the central altar. It was installed early in 1867, at a total cost of $6,131.

  7. Category:Novels by Truman Capote - Wikipedia

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  8. Estelle Winwood - Wikipedia

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    Winwood appeared as a character in Answered Prayers, Truman Capote's final, unfinished, thinly veiled roman à clef. In the novel, which uses her real name, she attends a drunken dinner party with Bankhead, Dorothy Parker, Montgomery Clift, and the novel's narrator, P.B. Jones.

  9. 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 ...