Tiny terror [[electronic resource] ] : why Truman Capote (almost) wrote Answered prayers / / William Todd Schultz

• Autore: Schultz William Todd
• Pubblicazione: New York, : Oxford University Press, 2011
• Descrizione fisica: 1 online resource (198 p.)
• Disciplina: 813/.54; B
• Soggetto topico: Authors, American - 20th century; Psychoanalysis and literature - United States
• Soggetto genere / forma: Electronic books.
• Note generali: Description based upon print version of record.
• Nota di bibliografia: Includes bibliographical references and index.
• Nota di contenuto: Consistently inconsistent consistency -- Snake's nest of no's -- Leaving the boy behind -- Mind of a murderer -- Frying fancy fish -- Preparations for the scaffold of a personality portrait.
• Sommario/riassunto: Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as Other Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel In Cold Blood. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote's last, unfinished book, Answered Prayers, a merciless skewering of cafe society and the high-class women Capote called his ""swans."" When excerpts appeared he was immediately blacklisted, ruined socially, labeled a pariah. Capote recoiled--disgraced, depressed, and all but friendless. In Tiny Terror, a new vol
• Titolo autorizzato: Tiny terror
• ISBN: 0-19-025596-X; 0-19-983064-9
• Formato: Materiale a stampa
• Livello bibliografico: Monografia
• Lingua di pubblicazione: Inglese
• Record Nr.: 9910456931603321
• Lo trovi qui: Univ. Federico II
• Serie: Inner lives.