The Chorus Girl Verotchka My Life At a Country House A Father On the Road Rothschild's Fiddle Ivan Matveyitch Zinotchka Bad Weather A Gentleman Friend A Trivial Incident
A three-month run in a new farce by Bill Blunden is not to be sniffed at by jobbing actor, Charles Paris. But by the time the troupe reaches Bath, a dark mood has set in. When Charles's friend Mark is murdered, it's one of the cast, who has a secret to hide, who is responsible.
When Nancy visits Montreal, a TV newscaster with a criminal past, an heiress, and a society doctor conspire to trap her by using her friend George as bait. Nancy gets involved in this vicious duel of wits with master criminals.
The book is a somewhat sordid tale of the mixing of high and low social classes, drawn from his experiences as best friend and confidant to the most prominent female socialites of the era and their husbands. The first chapter of Answered Prayers, Unspoiled Monsters, which was published in Esquire, is largely based on Capote's friend, the real-life male prostitute Denham Fouts. Capote first envisioned it as an American analog to Marcel Proust's Remembrance of Things Past that would come to be regarded as his masterwork in the late 1950s.
It's 1969, and the times are changing. America is about to land a man on the moon, the Vietnamese war is in full swing, and racial tension is on the rise. Things just aren't as simple as they used to be - at least, not for Rabbit Angstrom. His wife has left him with his teenage son, his job is under threat and his mother is dying. Suddenly, into his confused life - and home - comes Jill, an eighteen-year-old runaway who becomes his lover. But when she invites her friend to stay, a young black radical named Skeeter, the pair's fragile harmony soon begins to fail ...
