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Article: Truman Capote's Table Talk
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- The Washington Post
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- September 20, 1987
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ANSWERED PRAYERS: The Unfinished Novel By Truman Capote
Random House. 180 pp. $16.95 A CAPOTE READER. By Truman Capote
Random House. 722 pp. $25 I REMEMBER GRANDPA. By Truman Capote
Illustrated by Barry Moser
Peachtree. 37 pp. $14.95 "DEAR GENIUS . . . ":
A Memoir of My Life with Truman Capote By Jack Dunphy
McGraw-Hill. 275 pp. $17.95
UNFINISHED IS hardly the word. The novel Truman Capote carried
about in swaddling clothes and nurtured on bragging and booze for the
last dozen years of his life was barely begun.
In 1972, four years after the original due date for Answered
Prayers, and the year he first put pen to paper, Capote predicted
that it would be "triple the length of all my ...