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Capote’s Women audiobook
- By: Laurence Leamer
- Narrator: Carrington MacDuffie
- Category: Biography & Autobiography, Rich & Famous
- Length: 10 hours 25 minutes
- Publisher: Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group
- Publish date: January 01, 2021
- Language: English
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Capote’s Women Audiobook Summary
*National Bestseller*
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.”
“There are certain women,” Truman Capote wrote, “who, though perhaps not born rich, are born to be rich.” Barbara “Babe” Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill (Jackie Kennedy’s sister)—they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. Capote befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and ingratiated himself into their lives. Then, in one fell swoop, he betrayed them in the most surprising and startling way possible.
Bestselling biographer Laurence Leamer delves into the years following the acclaimed publication of Breakfast at Tiffany’s in 1958 and In Cold Blood in 1966, when Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer’s block. While enjoying all the fruits of his success, he was struck with an idea for what he was sure would be his most celebrated novel…one based on the remarkable, racy lives of his very, very rich friends.
For years, Capote attempted to write Answered Prayers, what he believed would have been his magnum opus. But when he eventually published a few chapters in Esquire, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes were laid bare for all to see, and he was banished from their high-society world forever. Laurence Leamer re-creates the lives of these fascinating swans, their friendships with Capote and one another, and the doomed quest to write what could have been one of the greatest novels of the twentieth century.
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Capote’s Women Full Details
| Narrator | Carrington MacDuffie |
| Length | 10 hours 25 minutes |
| Author | Laurence Leamer |
| Category | |
| Publisher | Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group |
| Release date | April 30, 2024 |
| ISBN | 9780593453315 |
Subjects
The publisher of the Capote’s Women is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. includes the following subjects: history books, breakfast at tiffany's, literary biographies, historical books, hollywood, new york city, high society, relationships, secrets, american history, swans, literary history, literary gifts, history gifts, in cold blood, history, breakfast at tiffanys, biographies of famous people, truman capote, biographies, biography, gift, biographies best sellers, books for women, biographies and autobiographies, autobiographies, us history, american history books, gifts for history buffs, american, autobiography, literature, Biography & Autobiography, Rich & Famous, Biography & Autobiography, Literary, History, United States, State & Local, Middle Atlantic DC, DE, MD, NJ, NY, PA) The BISAC Subject Code is Biography & Autobiography, Rich & Famous
Additional info
The publisher of the Capote’s Women is Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The imprint is Penguin Audio. It is supplied by Penguin Random House Audio Publishing Group. The ISBN-13 is 9780593453315.
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This book is only available in the United States.
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