Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer

Capote's Women: A True Story of Love, Betrayal, and a Swan Song for an Era by Laurence Leamer The accounting of the women that Capote called his 'swans', glamorous trend setting women of the 50s through the 80s that he was friends with and that set the tone for a certain segment of society. These women were alos the subject of the unfinished Capote book about them and was going to be dishy and blast open their world, which did not need blasting. The women are names that you know, Babe Paley, Lee Radziwell, Joanna Carson etc their real story is one of not glamor but trying to get by in the sexist world the lived in while keeping a front of Vogue cover sophistication. A narrow slice of society by an easy one to read about.