{"product_id":"tiny-terror-why-truman-capote-almost-wrote-answered-prayers-9780199752041","title":"Tiny Terror: Why Truman Capote (Almost) Wrote Answered Prayers","description":"Truman Capote was one of the most gifted and flamboyant writers of his generation, renowned for such books as \u003cem\u003eOther Voices, Other Rooms, Breakfast at Tiffany's\u003c\/em\u003e, and his masterpiece, the nonfiction novel \u003cem\u003eIn Cold Blood\u003c\/em\u003e. What has received comparatively little attention, however, is Capote's last, \u003cbr\u003eunfinished book, \u003cem\u003eAnswered Prayers\u003c\/em\u003e, 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. \u003cbr\u003e In \u003cem\u003eTiny Terror\u003c\/em\u003e, 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\u003cbr\u003eearly 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\u003cbr\u003ehurt; 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\u003cbr\u003etendency fed into \u003cem\u003eAnswered Prayers\u003c\/em\u003e, an exceedingly corrosive and thinly disguised roman a clef that trashed his high-society friends. \u003cbr\u003e 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\u003cbr\u003ebook a revelation.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e William Todd Schultz\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Oxford University Press, USA\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 04\/29\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 208\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Hardcover\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.60lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 7.10h x 5.10w x 0.90d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780199752041\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eKirkus Reviews\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/15\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eLibrary Journal\u003c\/i\u003e 04\/15\/2011 pg. 94\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChoice\u003c\/i\u003e 11\/01\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003eWilliam Todd Schultz, PhD, is Professor of Psychology at Pacific University. Over the past two decades he's written numerous psychobiographical articles and book chapters, on Ludwig Wittgenstein, Diane Arbus, Sylvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Roald Dahl, James Agee, and Jack Kerouac, among others. He is editor of the \u003cem\u003eHandbook of Psychobiography\u003c\/em\u003e, published by Oxford University Press in 2005.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003ci\u003eThis title is not returnable\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Oxford University Press, USA","offers":[{"title":"Hardcover","offer_id":40110193672307,"sku":"9.7802E+12","price":22.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0555\/9255\/0515\/products\/img_f52327f2-e542-4b82-8c39-16876a907008.jpg?v=1653402030","url":"https:\/\/bookstorenmore.com\/products\/tiny-terror-why-truman-capote-almost-wrote-answered-prayers-9780199752041","provider":"Bookstore N More","version":"1.0","type":"link"}