Imprint: Hutchinson
Published: 14/06/2018
ISBN: 9781786331052
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 42mm x 162mm
Weight: 723g
RRP: £12.99
LONGLISTED FOR THE 2019 WOMEN'S PRIZE FOR FICTION
‘The new Donna Tartt.’ Vogue
'Brilliantly captures Capote’s acid wit and his dramatic downfall.' The Times, Books of the Year
'A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail.' Sunday Times
'A whirlwind of a first novel. There is great pathos in the Swans’ woundings and in their inevitable decline. And the character of Truman himself shimmers through the novel in a wonderful blaze of eccentricity and excess. Outstanding.' Rose Tremain
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They told him everything.
He told everyone else.
Over countless martini-soaked Manhattan lunches, they shared their deepest secrets and greatest fears. On exclusive yachts sailing the Mediterranean, on private jets streaming towards Jamaica, on Yucatán beaches in secluded bays, they gossiped about sex, power, money, love and fame. They never imagined he would betray them so absolutely.
In the autumn of 1975, after two decades of intimate friendships, Truman Capote detonated a literary grenade, forever rupturing the elite circle he’d worked so hard to infiltrate. Why did he do it, knowing what he stood to lose? Was it to punish them? To make them pay for their manners, money and celebrated names? Or did he simply refuse to believe that they could ever stop loving him? Whatever the motive, one thing remains indisputable: nine years after achieving wild success with In Cold Blood, Capote committed an act of professional and social suicide with his most lethal of weapons . . . Words.
A dazzling debut about the line between gossip and slander, self-creation and self-preservation, SWAN SONG is the tragic story of the literary icon of his age and the beautiful, wealthy, vulnerable women he called his Swans.
‘Writers write. And one can’t be surprised if they write what they know.’
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'A completely fascinating novel and a marvellously skilful re-imagining of real people, times and places. Outstanding.' William Boyd
'Scandalous, frenetic, amusing and tragic.' Daily Mail
'Our generation’s The Secret History' Pendora
'Brilliantly written, deeply researched, funny, sharp and moving.' Kate Williams, bestselling author of Josephine
Imprint: Hutchinson
Published: 14/06/2018
ISBN: 9781786331052
Length: 480 Pages
Dimensions: 240mm x 42mm x 162mm
Weight: 723g
RRP: £12.99
"A rich, sharp, sting of a book. It made me laugh and grimace and pity monsters. I'm still smiling about it"
"Brilliantly captures Capote’s acid wit and his dramatic downfall."
"As deliciously gossipy as it is wretched, and Greenberg-Jephcott's unique rendering of Capote's squealing drawl of a voice is unforgettable."
"Gorgeous... That glittering world - all Dom Perignon, Sobranies, Quaalude and Chanel - is recreated with a lovely eye for detail"
"Since reading the totally, totally beautiful Swan Song, I have two new hobbies. Googling photos of Barbara Paley and watching videos of the Camel Walk."
"A sparkling debut vividly captures the high society women who punished Capote for his indiscreet reporting"
"A dazzlingly assured first novel... This clever book, with the moreish astringency of a negroni, is a perfect summer cocktail"
"A completely fascinating novel and a marvellously skillful re-imagining of real people, times and places. Outstanding."
"This is a first novel of extraordinary skill, a book of which Capote would have been proud"
"If a writer is going to craft a novel from well-known events, they might as well do it with brio, which this has in spades... A skilled and sparking debut"