Summary of Laurence Leamer's Capote's Women

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Please note: This is a companion version & not the original book.
Sample Book Insights:
#1 Truman Capote was writing a novel about the richest, most elegant women in the world. He understood what these women had achieved and how they had done it. They did not come from grand money, but they had married into it. Their charms were carefully cultivated.
#2 Truman chose his swans as if collecting precious paintings that he wanted to hang in his home for the rest of his life. The most beautiful woman in the world was Babe Paley, called the most beautiful woman in the world.
#3 Truman had a close friendship with Marella Agnelli, an Italian princess. He admired her style and elegance, and she appreciated his. He had everything he needed to write about them with depth and nuance, exploring both the good and the bad.
#4 Truman’s authorized biographer, Gerald Clarke, saw the excerpt of La Côte Basque 1965 and was underwhelmed. It was little more than a string of gossipy vignettes, repeating the kinds of ugly stories that were whispered at elite dinner parties.

Informations

• Publié par: Everest Media LLC
• Date de parution: 19 mars 2022
• Nombre de lectures: 0
• EAN13: 9781669354581
• Langue: English
• Poids de l'ouvrage: 1 Mo

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Insights on Laurence Leamer's Capotes Women
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Insights from Chapter 1

#1

Truman Capote was writing a novel about the richest, most elegant women in the world. He understood what these women had achieved and how they had done it. They did not come from grand money, but they had married into it. Their charms were carefully cultivated.

#2

Truman chose his swans as if collecting precious paintings that he wanted to hang in his home for the rest of his life. The most beautiful woman in the world was Babe Paley, called the most beautiful woman in the world.

#3

Truman had a close friendship with Marella Agnelli, an Italian princess. He admired her style and elegance, and she appreciated his. He had everything he needed to write about them with depth and nuance, exploring both the good and the bad.

#4

Truman’s authorized biographer, Gerald Clarke, saw the excerpt of La Côte Basque 1965 and was underwhelmed. It was little more than a string of gossipy vignettes, repeating the kinds of ugly stories that were whispered at elite dinner parties.
Insights from Chapter 2

#1

When Bill Paley invited Truman Capote to fly down to Jamaica with him in 1955, he did not realize that the author was referring to the former president. Truman was a wonderful but bad little boy. He created unforgettable dramas each evening, and he and Bill’s wife, Babe, became close friends.

#2

Truman was extremely attracted to Babe, and he felt comfortable around her husband, Bill, because he knew that the two were in love with each other. Truman admired the Paleys’ marriage immensely.

#3

Money did not buy happiness, and Babe taught Truman this. She introduced him to the works of Proust, Henry James, and Gustave Flaubert, and the elite woman writer Edith Wharton.

#4

The Cushing sisters were raised to marry well. Their mother, Katharine, wanted them to marry European nobles with castles and grand estates, or marry the richest men in America.

#5

The Cushing sisters were all very beautiful, and they all had dreams of a life outside of Washington. Babe had a severe auto accident in 1934, and her sister Betsey threw a tea dance for her in the White House to introduce her to the elite social world of Washington Cave Dwellers.

#6

The Cushings were obsessed with finding wealthy husbands for their daughters. They would spend time with the men they were interested in, and if the men seemed interested in them, they would marry them.

#7

Truman’s mother, Lillie Mae, had similar ambitions to reach social heights above her station. She was determined to take her rightful place among what she considered the best people. She was married and a mother, but she spent much of her time bringing men back to her room.

#8

Truman’s first friend was Nelle Harper Lee, a tomboy who was almost as much on the outs as Truman. They had a tree house where they went to share their dreams and secrets. Truman was a happy child until he was seven or eight, when he began to realize that he was rejected by his parents.

#9

Truman had a love-hate relationship with his mother. He was extremely popular with the other kids, but he was also extremely seductive. He would soon disabuse any boy of the notion that he was heterosexual.

#10

When Stanley was out on the town with Babe, he was the most charming man in the world. But when he was down, he disappeared and stayed by himself. He was a manic depressive, and when he was up, he was the most charming man in the world.

#11

During the war, Babe became a Vogue editor, and she went out into the nightlife of New York’s café society. She no longer aspired to be part of the rituals of the world she had grown up in.