Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Auteur de Swan Song
A propos de l'auteur
Œuvres de Kelleigh Greenberg-Jephcott
Étiqueté
Partage des connaissances
- Sexe
- female
- Nationalité
- USA
- Lieu de naissance
- Houston, Texas, USA
- Lieux de résidence
- Houston, Texas, USA
Los Angeles, California, USA
London, England, UK - Prix et distinctions
- Bridgeport Prize Peggy Chapman-Andrews Award
Membres
Critiques
Listes
Prix et récompenses
Statistiques
- Œuvres
- 1
- Membres
- 141
- Popularité
- #145,671
- Évaluation
- 3.7
- Critiques
- 5
- ISBN
- 8
Swan Song is a novel about the swans: a bevy of rich glamorous socialites that gathered around author Truman Capote in his New York heyday. Capote flattered them, gossipped with them and became privy to their deepest secrets. When he published the early chapters of his unfinished novel Answered Prayers Capote proceeded to lay bare these secrets and did very little to obscure the inspiration for his characters. The backlash from his swans was instant and terrible.
The novel is, ironically, a roman a clef about an author who thought he was writing an epic roman a clef, which he thought justified his actions. His social milieu saw it very differently and ostracised him almost completely, although some did acknowledge that sharing your secrets with a writer would inevitably lead to him publishing them.
Each of Capote's swans is given a focus in the novel and her story told. Most of these were born to high society but some, including Capote, had a more staid background and had to lift themselves out of poverty. Most had lives that were blighted by sadness and misfortune which Capote played on for his material; little wonder they were angry. There are some nice touches in which an anecdote gets retold several times with differing detail, underlining the Chinese whispers nature of the gossip that lies at the centre of this drama.
As far as I could tell, the novel is pretty close to the truth and the author does make you feel sympathetic towards all of her main characters. There is a sadness to this story and the tragedy of a man of great promise and achievement who brought himself undone.… (plus d'informations)