Titre :	Answered prayers : the unfinished novel
Type de document :	texte imprimé
Auteurs :	Truman Capote
Editeur :	London [England] : Penguin Books
Année de publication :	2001
Collection :	Penguin classics
Importance :	181 p.
Présentation :	couv. ill. en coul.
Format :	20 cm
ISBN/ISSN/EAN :	978-0-14-118593-4
Note générale :	Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
Langues :	Anglais
Catégories :	LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:823 English fiction : novel ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature
Résumé :	A brilliantly malicious expose of the literary jet-set, when Answered Prayersfirst appeared in excerpts in Esquire magazine it outraged Capote's society friends, who recognized thinly veiled portraits of themselves in these scandalous fictional 'memoirs'. P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this great, unfinished novel, who discovers that bed-hoping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati - only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remained ignored.

Answered prayers : the unfinished novel [texte imprimé] / Truman Capote . - London (England) : Penguin Books, 2001 . - 181 p. : couv. ill. en coul. ; 20 cm. - (Penguin classics) .
ISBN : 978-0-14-118593-4
Originally published: London : Hamish Hamilton, 1986.
Langues : Anglais

Catégories :

LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:823 English fiction : novel ; LITTERATURE ET LANGUE ANGLAISE:828 English literature

Résumé :

A brilliantly malicious expose of the literary jet-set, when Answered Prayersfirst appeared in excerpts in Esquire magazine it outraged Capote's society friends, who recognized thinly veiled portraits of themselves in these scandalous fictional 'memoirs'. P.B. Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this great, unfinished novel, who discovers that bed-hoping rather than literary ability is the way to get published. Living by his wits and his charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati - only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remained ignored.