Rating: 
Summary: Wildly fascinating, equally tragic.
Review: Wow, what a story! Reads more like a spectacular novel than biography...
An absolutely fantastic insight into elite society's beloved (and soon after, elite society's abhorred) and eccentric Puck who enrapts everyone in his midst with wild tales, crazy antics, and just the peculiarities of his odd character. For many years, Truman enjoyed the intimacy of friendship, and, supposedly confidence, with (the wives of) presidents, kings, business moguls and Hollywood's nobility of which Clark has researched and presented with wonderful insights from Truman's closest friends, great nay-sayers and, at times, even enemies. The biography sexually links Capote with such notable artists as Tennessee Williams, Gore Vidal--and perhaps Albert Camus--to Errol Flynn, and Marlon Brando! Naturally, one knows of the homosexuality present in the artistic community, but to see it on paper, seems almost lascivious if not for Capote's frailties. Not only Capote's writings, but his grand orchestrations of spectacular peoples' lives, garnered glamorous attention in the US as well as around the globe, but unfortunately, he never escapes his desperate need of love and attention formed through an abusive childhood and eventually it becomes his undoing.
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