The Self-Destructive Spiral of Truman Capote After Answered Prayers - Vanity Fair 🔗 📚 ✍️ 🏳️‍🌈

‘La Côte Basque 1965,’ the first installment of Truman Capote’s planned roman à clef, Answered Prayers, dropped like a bomb on New York society when it appeared in Esquire’s November 1975 issue. Iced out by the friends he’d skewered—such of his ‘swans’ as Slim Keith, Gloria Vanderbilt, and Babe Paley—Capote began his slide into an early grave. Sam Kashner pursues the scandal’s mysteries, including the fate of the unfinished manuscript.

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