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"I wish that then and there I had moved to the country. But it was too late, for I had already started my journey to the Earth's interior.'' Like all of Capote's fiction, Answered Prayers draws heavily on his "real life'' but instead of his Southern childhood, he details here in anecdotal form the "atmosphere of luxurious exhaustion'' of the lives of the globe- trotting super-rich. The air of unreality that pervades the book is deliberate; the real acts of extreme people are hard for the imagination to accept. Capote's genius was to enter into those extreme lives as a marginal participant and emerge as an eloquent eyewitness; tragically, he did not emerge intact. Having commi...Log In or Sign Up to Read More