Binding: Paperback
Description: NEW YORK Times Bestseller The author of The Aviator's Wife returns with a triumphant new novel about New York's Swans of the 1950s and the scandalous headline - making and enthralling friendship between literary legend Truman Capote and peerless socialite Babe Paley. People's Book of the Week US a Today's #1 New and Noteworthy Book Entertainment Weekly's Must List Library Reads Top Ten Pick Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste especially among her friends the alluring socialite Swans Slim Keith C. Z. Guest Gloria Guinness and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances Babe has it all: money beauty glamour jewels influential friends a prestigious husband and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman a woman desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden - haired genius with a larger - than - life personality explodes onto the scene setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe Truman gains an unlikely entr e into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls True Heart Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller always a storyteller even when the stories aren t his to tell. Truman's fame is at its peak when such notable celebrities as Frank and Mia Sinatra Lauren Bacall and Rose Kennedy converge on his glittering Black and White Ball. But all too soon he ll ignite a literary scandal whose repercussions echo through the years. The Swans of Fifth Avenue will seduce and startle readers as it opens the door onto one of America's most sumptuous eras. Praise for The Swans of Fifth Avenue Exceptional storytelling teeming with scandal gossip and excitement. Harper's Bazaar This moving fictionalization brings the whole cast of characters back to vivid life. Gossipy and fun it's also a nuanced look at the beauty and cruelty of a rarefied bygone world. People The era and the sordid details come back to life in this jewel of a novel. O: The Oprah Magazine
Title: The Swans Of Fifth Avenue A Novel
Author(s): Benjamin Melanie
Publisher: Random House Usa Inc
Barcode: 9780345528704
Pages: 400 Pages
Publication Date: 10/25/2016
Category: Modern & Contemporary Fiction