Decoding The MYSTERY of 'Answered Prayers' - Truman Capote's Unfinished GOSSIP Novel!
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- Опубліковано 22 лют 2024
- What really happened to Truman Capote's missing chapters to 'Answered Prayers?' The surviving chapters of ‘Answered Prayers’ feature real people and real gossip-but what happened to the rest ot the gossip novel? This video is all about the many theories, truths and half-truths about what really did - or didn’t - happen to Answered Prayers.
PLUS ➡➡ if you watch to the end, there is a surprise chapter of Answered Prayers that has been recently discovered that I’ll tell you about.
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After all the evidence, stories and accounts, what do you think? Did he ever finish it? Leave comments & let's discuss it!
Capote was the perfect example of a man who was given all the gifts God could have given any man. He squandered all of them. He truly had everything and nothing at all at the same time. His life was a horrific tragedy at the end.
Well said. Thanks for joining the conversation!
I think deep down he wanted to do what he did because his mother was kept out of High Society. I also believe with Babe, the most vulnerable, who completely trusted him, he thought he was just going to embarrass her husband. And ended up hurting her more than anyone.
He was but I have to wonder how much of his personality flaws and addiction were driven by his horrible childhood with an absent, self-absorbed mother consumed with social climbing herself. I think he was a snake but was he driven to that behavior. I’m conflicted because some people endure horrible childhoods and you’d never know - they are wonderful loving adults.
@@TheDriftwoodlover I think everything he did stemmed from his childhood. His mother being shunned by high society. He used them as payback for his mother's treatment. Just my opinion. I do think what he did to Babe was the worst thing he could ever do to her. Thinking that outing her husband would be something she would thank him for. He deserved everything he got. Play with fire and you get burned. They weren't as dumb as he thought. And he murdered Ann because of his word's. I don't think him or the Swan's ever even cared that she died.
As a psych major, my belief is that his mother had a lot to do with it all. I did a video on her in case you haven't caught that yet. ua-cam.com/video/x-d0kbQZDvE/v-deo.html
If this manuscript existed, and if there are bits and pieces hidden around, I’m glad no one has found them. Everyone is dead now, let them rest. After In Cold Blood, one of our greatest writers produced next to nothing of significance. And that’s the tragedy.
It is a tragedy that he couldn't pull himself out of the cult of NY society and go after a better plot line. Thanks for joining the conversation!
He should have never betrayed his swans, he deserved to get banished from the group
He should have looked outside the box for his next novel rather than focus on gossip. Imagine if he had waited until later, got off the drugs and alcohol and did something fresh! Thanks for joining the conversation!
I find these stories about high society fascinating! True crime is my favorite genre and just like many of the crime victims and families, you never truly know what goes on behind closed doors of the rich and famous. Much like social media today-people only show you what they want you to see. But the stories “behind the scenes…” 😮😢
Another great video! Thank you! ♥️
Thank you for appreciating the video and yes, you never really know and that is why I like to find out more with shows like this. Thanks for joining the conversation1
After Rossini wrote the "William Tell Overture," he never wrote opera again. Sometimes the first is the best -- and the last.
Good point! Thanks for joining the conversation!
Including "Gone With the Wind" that was filmed literally page by page straight from the book.
I think by this time Capote's mind was just so gone from substance abuse. HE rose so high with his early work he could not recapture the magick and that's what really killed him.
I think the book was completed, and still out there. At the very least an insider friend of Truman's claims he copied a complete manuscript and even had it bound by a bookbinder. Later that book went missing, the inference is it was stolen. But somebody somewhere has it. Capote often said Answered Prayers would be a modern parallel to Proust's In Remembrance of Things Past, but I've always agreed with Norman Mailer's assessment that most of the dirt dished in Esquire was frivolous---New York café society's vanities, love affairs and, in one instance, a murder. Many prejudged it as a rambling study of human foibles, but just try to stop reading once you've started 'Unspoiled Monsters.' When Vanity Fair printed the 'Yachts and Things' excerpt it provided the set up for the novel's conclusion. Many critics insisted the surviving material was disjointed, lacking a discernible plot, but I think they just didn't pay attention. All the chapters are islands in the stream, complete unto themselves; readers must understand the passage of time between chapters is not filled in, and it's years. It's easier to see the big picture after reading every word currently available (The Unfinished Novel, Esquire's four installments, 'Yachts and Things') and paying special attention to the chapter titles in their intended correct sequence. The story would have played out logically on the page based on Capote's original vision of including 'Mojave' in his own numbering of the chapters. Also the Esquire versions must be considered the definitive text. From all that can be confirmed Capote intended the finished novel to run in the following order, with the possibility of chapters 4 and 6 being flipped.
1. Unspoiled Monsters
2. Mojave
3. Kate McCloud
4. And Audrey Wilder Sang
5. A Severe Insult to the Brain
6. Yachts and Things
7. La Cote Basque 1965 (note how late in the story Capote placed this)
8. Father Flanagan's All-Night N*****-Queen Kosher Café
The single most important aspect Capote revealed about Answered Prayers was it would be his ONLY work with a happy ending. The girl the hero PB Jones loves has a child with a very cruel and rich man, the mother is free to roam, but without her child, the kid never never leaves the custody of his father, or the island he owns. In the last chapter PB Jones will kidnap the child of his lady love away from her evil husband's island, slaying the 'monster' in the process. This daring rescue will involve the Witchcraft yacht as getaway car and her rugged crewmembers as backup, foreshadowed in 'Yachts and Things.'
This situating of the missing chapters (other than the last one) is pure conjecture on your part and supported by nothing I've ever read.
Thank you for taking the time to provide us with this detailed information!
@@JeffRebornNow Did you even read Answered Prayers, O omnipotent researcher? Capote listed his chapter numbers and titles in the Forward. 😛
@@fabulouswomeninhistory And thanks for the superb video. I read elsewhere you were unsure AP had a plot but it begins to show itself in the Kate McCloud chapter. After PB Jones meets her he quits hustling because he's in love, yet to happily marry her PB knows he must solve the problem of her jerk husband on a remote island holding her kid hostage. The missing chapters are probably gossipy and self-contained like La Cote Basque, colorful stops along the way in the rescue mission plot through-line.
@JeffRebornNow I guess you missed the part where George Plimpton gathered all of these theories and personal experiences in his book and I guess you haven't read that book.
Excellent research. This is exactly what I have been wanting to know. What were all the things people said? Who said they had read some of the chapters? Good job on this video and may I say that you have a good graphic designer's eye ( I know because that is what I do!). As for what I think. I think that he probably burned some of the pages. It seems to fit his erratic personality. He was kind of a f**ed up person. Mad genius, as they say.
Thank you for the feedback and for adding your thoughts on the topic.
You should check out murder in Hollywood by casey sherman. Read it in one sitting.
It covered the life of Lana turner and how her daughter took the life of her stepfather.
They were never married, Johnny Stompanato was her BF.
Capote did a movie called Murder By Death ( I think that is a photo of him in that movie in your video). I wonder if people realize he did a movie. Word is he was so drunk on set all the time that he held up production. My guess is that he didn't write much more of his novel once the Esquire excerpts came out and he was so hard on Ann Woodward. Did he have a conscience? I doubt it but no matter how much of a narcissist, he had to have pick up on the vibes that he was no longer a favored pet among the jet set. I found it curiuos how many people said that they had glimpses of the unpublished chapters or he had read it to them but, If I am not mistaken they were all pals of his and I would not have put it past him to have them say that the things they did even after he was dead. It was, after all, the Truman cult.
That is an interesting take on things and glad you took the time to give us your insight. Thanks!
That movie, to this day, is one of my favorite movies. It was perfect.
Murder By Death is available for Free now on UA-cam.
Yes he was drunk and high in his scene
Who knew Nancy Reagan had a gay friend! What was their political stand on gay rights, I wonder? My take is that Capote probably didn't write much once he started hanging out at Club 54 and got stoned all the time with that crowd. There are pictures of him so out of his gourd that it hard to imagine him being able to even hold a pencil in his had. Still, glad you left that link so I can read it for myself. Thank you👍👍
Glad you liked it!
Nancy Reagan liked gay men who were useful to her, such as her designer Adolfo, who was allowed to sleep with his lover in the Lincoln Bedroom.
Nancy was an ocultast. Of course she had gay friends.
Reagan were never going to go out of their way for gays. Rich ones were OK
That's interesting.
Brilliant work🙏
Thank you so much 😀
I think he was out of his element writing about high society. All of his earlier work is about poorer people and he was able to give them all a heart. Just like his character, Holly Golightly said of herself that even when she was attending parties in NYC, she was in reality just an orphan stealing eggs to survive. He forgot who he was and in turn became a bad person. Artists should remain true to themselves and remain compassionate to others. Not all of them are like this, but I think the best ones try to do good
That's a very good analysis. Thanks for joining the conversation!
Nancy had her walkers around New York I talked with one she alwys wanted to excepted by New York society she was a climber
That is interesting. I know I was surprised to learn about her gar walkers!Thanks for joining the conversation!
thank-you! your videos are extraordinary & you have a wonderful voice as well.
truman looked so much better thin, he really did. it didn’t translate well: he looked like a chubby, gossipy old queen, when he could’ve masqueraded as an eccentric novelist.
Wow, thank you! ..and yes, he was quite good looking when young. Chubbiness did not suit him.
I’m really hoping George RR Martin doesn’t pull a similar move w his a song of fire & ice series
I read Answered Prayers. It made no sense and was dull. I thought how foolish of the individuals who stepped forward and identified themselves as being in the fictional book. I’m not sure anyone would have recognized them outside their circle.
I believe that they were most interested in who in their circle would recognize them. I doubt they thought of the world outisde of their bubble. A sad state of affairs to be sure. Thanks for joining the conversation!
Tks
You're welcome!
I read the pages you directed us to in VF. While Capote did say there was a chapter called Yachts and Things in AP, this is not it. It bears no relation to the plot of that novel and the "I" of these pages is never identified as the narrator P.B. Jones.
I don't know if we can truly say that the novel even had a plot. The various known chapters don't seem related to each other at all. But... thanks for contributing the conversation!
No I talked a lot in his mind he was alwys going to finish but didn’t
truman was such a tragic figure & it was all his own doing. he was seduced by too much shiny nonsense & wasted himself……
I think that is Mailer was getting at. Thanks for joining the conversation!
Addiction is NOT a choice
He suffered
Sure it is. Every single time one puts the next thing in their mouth. So many of us did masses of lots of drugs, except needle related, all during our college years at UC Berkeley in the 60s. It was always a choice with no one forcing anyone to do any of it. We also choose to go to classes, work part time, have social lives, graduate. No ods.
Much like Whitney Houston