Answered Prayers

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


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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


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