![]() As outlined by a series of audio recordings with friends and those who knew him The Capote Tapes recounts how the openly gay writer cut a swath through New York despite having come from humble beginnings and as suggested here, that having never known his father and desperate for the love of his mother who, having given him up as a child then came back into his life, before she eventually committed suicide. Straddling high and low culture it was his last book ‘Answered Prayers’ that would bring his downfall. Smart, bitchy and waspish he was feted by the High Society women whose lives were vacuously empty and he provided their entertainment in a never ending whirl of parties. ![]() Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and shocking way possible.Looking like the bastard love child of an unholy union between Andy Warhol, Captain Mainwaring and Max Headroom but with the voice of a nasally challenged teenage dalek, writer Truman Capote cut an unlikely figure in New York high society. He befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. These women captivated and enchanted Capote-and at times, they infuriated him as well. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy's sister)-they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. Barbara Babe Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. There are certain women, Truman Capote wrote, who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich. New York Times bestselling author Laurence Leamer reveals the complex web of relationships and scandalous true stories behind Truman Capote's never-published final novel, Answered Prayers-the dark secrets, tragic glamour, and Capote's ultimate betrayal of the group of female friends he called his swans.
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