{"product_id":"answered-prayers-truman-capote-9780593731109","title":"Answered Prayers","description":"\u003cp\u003eTruman Capote's unfinished final novel is an unsparing tell-all of New York high society that sent a seismic shock through the public and Capote's own social circle.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Prose that makes the heart sing and the narrative fly.\"-The New York Times Book Review\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eCatapulted from a childhood spent in a Missouri orphanage to the dizzying peaks of New York high society, the destitute and debauched writer P. B. Jones spends his days moving between the paltry cell of a Manhattan Y.M.C.A. and the opulent playgrounds of the metropolitan elite.  \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eThough Jones struggles to make ends meet, his effortless associations with the moneyed and powerful thrust him into sumptuous business offices, bohemian bars inhabited by the likes of Jean-Paul Sartre and Simone de Beauvoir, and the trendiest restaurants, where the tables are arranged by the social status of their occupants. Jones's days and nights are a riptide of dysfunctional dinner parties and hobnobbing with drunken heiresses, accompanied by a carousel of legendary female characters who populated Capote's own life, among them Colette, Jackie Kennedy, and the Duchess of Windsor. Indeed, Answered Prayers teems with the real-life secrets and confessions of Capote's most trusted friends, and these pages, when first published as a magazine serial, astounded readers but betrayed his confidantes, banishing him from the exclusive circle that was once his.   \u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eUnrestrained and irreverent, Answered Prayers renders a carnival of wealth and influence so unthinkable that it satirizes itself-with the inimitable wit of one of the twentieth century's most celebrated writers.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Truman Capote","offers":[{"title":"As New (w\/Marks)","offer_id":51481413976307,"sku":"7770003013095","price":18.95,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/9780593731109.jpg?v=1789849020","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/answered-prayers-truman-capote-9780593731109","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}