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	• Answered Prayers: The Unfinished Novel Truman Capote Vintage, 1994 - 208 pages average customer review:based on 20 reviews view larger image
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~Steven Harvey

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Amazing, Brilliant

The existing, published chapters of Answered Prayers constitute the most intelligent, edgy and well focused prose in American literature. The stories are dark and intimate, deep confession in the purest American tradition.

Capote took hell for writing these chapters. The doors into society he worked all his life to pry open were slammed shut, as his most famous friends read their lives printed in Esquire, where these works were originally published serially. Detractors that say his stories are innacurate should note this reaction from those he depicted.

Another chapter originally meant for Answered Prayers is Mojave, published in Music for Chameleons, and is excellent as well.

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Moments of brilliance, moments of ugliness

In my opinion, the first chapter of this book, 'Unspoiled Monsters' is superb and worthy of anyone's attention that is interested in Capote. The following two chapters are less focused, and while they are at times memorable, they come off more as a nasty, grotesque end-note to the author's glittery life amongst the literati and heterosexual rich.
This book is worth owning to complete your Capote collection, but don't expect too much.

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