Answered Prayers

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novel posthumously published work unfinished novel

Answered Prayers is Truman Capote’s famously unfinished, posthumously published novel that offers a scandalous, thinly veiled portrayal of New York high society.

Statements (45)

Predicate	Object
instanceOf	novel → posthumously published work → unfinished novel →
author	Truman Capote →
authorDeathYear	1984 →
authorDiedBeforeCompletion	true →
contains	explicit sexual content → gossip about high-profile figures → social satire →
countryOfOrigin	United States →
firstPublicationDate	1975 → 1976 →
firstPublishedIn	Esquire →
genre	roman à clef → satirical fiction → social novel →
hasISBN	ISBN 0-394-55335-1 →
hasOCLCNumber	OCLC 13722135 →
hasPart	“Kate McCloud” → “La Côte Basque, 1965” → “Unspoiled Monsters” → “Unspoiled Monsters” (chapter) → “Yachts and Things” →
hasReputation	“the book that destroyed Capote’s social life” →
inspiredBy	Marcel Proust’s In Search of Lost Time →
language	English →
libraryOfCongressClassification	PS3505.A59 →
literaryMovement	postmodern literature →
mainSubject	American social elites → New York high society →
mediaType	print →
narrativePerspective	first-person narrative →
notableFor	causing a scandal in New York high society → thinly veiled portrayals of real socialites →
protagonist	P.B. Jones →
publicationDate	1986 →
publicationStatus	posthumous → unfinished →
publisher	Random House →
relatedWork	Breakfast at Tiffany’s → In Cold Blood →
setting	New York City → mid-20th-century United States →
titleInspiredBy	a quote attributed to Saint Teresa of Ávila →
workPeriod	1970s →

Referenced by (5)

Subject (surface form when different)	Predicate
Truman Capote → Truman Streckfus Persons →	wrote
Truman Capote →	authorOf
Truman Streckfus Persons →	notableWork
Music for Chameleons →	precededBy