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Ladataan... Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (vuoden 2021 painos)Tekijä: Laurence Leamer (Tekijä)
TeostiedotCapote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era (tekijä: Laurence Leamer)
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Kirjaudu LibraryThingiin nähdäksesi, pidätkö tästä kirjasta vai et. Ei tämänhetkisiä Keskustelu-viestiketjuja tästä kirjasta. So you think you want to be filthy rich? Find someone with yachts and estates and pots of money to marry you and let you spend, spend, spend as long as you stay ultra thin and gorgeous? You can't have any real friends...you can't EAT anything but you can drink like a fish...you can't trust anyone (you especially can't trust Truman Capote, who acts like a true friend while sponging off your largesse)...you certainly can't fall in love (that's for the maids), but hey, you'll be rich and famous. Everyone will want to be invited to your parties and write magazine articles about your "lifestyle"; everyone will want to steal your husband or wife or lover; everyone will secretly want to see you take a nasty fall from the social register. What a world to aspire to. For many years, Truman Capote, whose indisputable talents were justly lauded, claimed to be writing a novel that would be his chef d'oeuvre, comparable to Edith Wharton's revelations of the society she knew so well. The title was to be Answered Prayers, and the point, of course, was that getting and having everything you want does not lead to endless happiness. He spent as much time as possible with the glamorous women he called his swans, gathering Nonfiction should not be this enjoyable to read, but this book, centered around the high society women Truman Capote befriended and then wrote about, makes for fun reading and hints at the appeal these women had for the famous writer. It's also very much a picture of the mid-twentieth century, with all the flaws of that era: Gloria von Furstenberg had Nazi connections, Pamela Churchill married the British Prime Minister's son and then proceeded to have a series of extramarital affairs, Lee Radziwill was trapped in a vain competition with her more famous sister Jackie Kennedy. Many of these women felt betrayed after Capote published a story featuring them in thinly veiled disguises, an act which caused the author's social expulsion. This book is filled with the antics of high society, the gossip of a previous age, and yet it manages to reveal something more sympathetic about both Capote and these women than Capote's own writing. Just as much a biography of author Truman Capote as that of his “swans”—mid-20th century rich socialites, it’s chock-full of gossipy tidbits. The booze, the affairs, the wild spending—everyone’s secrets are exposed. Capote doesn’t come off any better. He is shown to have ingratiated himself into the women’s lives and then betrayed them by writing an (unfinished) book into which he unflatteringly portrayed them as thinly-veiled characters. Juicy reading. näyttää 5/5
Perhaps biographer Leamer has found the missing aspect of Truman Capote's last work - that being Capote himself. Leamer's work begins as an effort to examine the subjects and substance of Capote's famed, unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, but it's ultimately an examination of Capote's obsessions. ... A must-read for fans of Capote. Leamer's carefully curated blend of gossip and citation is so to engross anyone interested in midcentury New York society. Prolific journalist Leamer turns his celebrity gossip lens on literary gadfly Capote, specifically the beautiful “swans” in his orbit. The author focuses on Capote’s famously unfinished novel Answered Prayers, “a daring literary feat, an exposé of upper-class society that blended the fictional flourishes of Breakfast at Tiffany’s with the closely observed narrative nonfiction of In Cold Blood.” ... Engagingly gossipy, Leamer provides extensive behind-the-scenes peaks into Capote’s tangled social life. Biographer Leamer (The Kennedy Women) showcases his knack for telling a rattling good tale in this vivid look at Truman Capote’s failed attempt to write “the greatest novel of the age.” The characters of his unrealized novel, Answered Prayers, were inspired by a circle of fabulously wealthy New York women into which Capote had ingratiated himself, each of whom is brought to life in Leamer’s vibrant prose. ... While he failed to actually write the novel, in 1975 Esquire published an excerpt of it that shared his flock’s secrets without their permission. The women, enraged that Capote had “betrayed them in a display of appallingly bad manners,” cut off all ties to him, a move that signaled the beginning of the end of his career. This juicy story delivers.
Barbara 'Babe' Paley, Gloria Guinness, Marella Agnelli, Slim Hayward, Pamela Churchill, C. Z. Guest, Lee Radziwill-- they were the toast of midcentury New York, each beautiful and distinguished in her own way. These women captivated and enchanted Capote-- and infuriated him as well. He befriended them, received their deepest confidences, and then betrayed them in his unfinished novel, Answered Prayers, the thinly fictionalized lives (and scandals) of his closest female confidantes. Leamer shows that, in the late 1960s, Capote struggled with a crippling case of writer's block; Answered Prayers was supposed to be his magnum opus but instead banished Capote from high-society forever. Kirjastojen kuvailuja ei löytynyt. |
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It’s partly a biography of Capote and partly mini biographies of the wealthy socialites he befriended and dubbed “Swans”. It’s very much a story of an era and social class of people that are far from my own experiences.
I was familiar with Capote and some of the women in the book but many were unknown to me. Most of them married multiple times and were ridiculously wealthy jet setters. When Capote betrayed their friendships and published a story featuring extremely thinly veiled portrayals of some of the women who considered him a loyal friend their friendships were shattered.
It’s interesting in an in- depth celebrity magazine style. These people lived luxurious lifestyles but also lived out the idea that money can’t buy happiness.
The book was interesting and I’ll be curious to find out how the TV series compares.
Carrington MacDuffie does a great job of narrating and I would not hesitate to get another book narrated by her. ( )