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 volume in Oxford's Inner Lives series,
William Todd Schultz sheds light on the life and works of Capote
and answers the perplexing mystery--why did Capote write a book
that would destroy him? Drawing on an arsenal of psychological
techniques, Schultz illuminates Capote's early years in the
South--a time that Capote himself described as a "snake's nest of
No's"--no parents to speak of, no friends but books, no hope, no
future. Out of this dark childhood emerged Capote's prominent dual
life-scripts: neurotic Capote, anxious, vulnerable, hypersensitive,
expecting to be hurt; and Capote the disagreeable destroyer,
emotionally bulletproof, nasty, and bent on revenge. Schultz shows
how Capote would strike out when he felt hurt or taken for granted,
engaging in caustic feuds with Gore Vidal, Tennessee Williams, and
many other writers. And Schultz reveals how this tendency fed into
Answered Prayers, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly disguised
roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends.
What emerges by the end of this book is a cogent, immensely
insightful portrait of an artist on the edge, brilliantly but
self-destructively biting the jet-set hands that fed him. Anyone
interested in the inner life of one of America's most fascinating
literary personalities will find this book a revelation.
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