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Author: Michael Hone Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781534792685 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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The lives of these men relied on two legs, the first was work, so intensive that Capote was at times seen to concentrate to the point that it was feared he would rupture a temple vein, visibly swollen, and Williams, Isherwood and Vidal were no less impassioned. The second leg was feverish sex, Williams so wild that his partners in love had to leave the apartment in order to get rest. As for Vidal, he himself said he had had 1,000 different boys by age 25, and Isherwood claimed he had had 500 in Berlin alone. The role of Denham Fouts was to enliven these men, his body scent of vanilla and the scorpion tattoo at his groin that each kissed before moving on. Vidal featured Denham in his The Judgment of Paris, Isherwood invoked his American years with Denham in Down There on a Visit, and Capote in his ''Spoiled Monsters''. This book will concentrate on both aspects, their creative genius and their need for a second form of beauty, that of the boys their art attracted--followed, later, by boys drawn to the money it engendered. Their incessant work allowed them to buy the objects of their lust, especially in the Europe of Paris and Rome and Venice, of Taormina, Capri and Ischia, and, back home in the States, during the war when the blackout made California beaches a jungle of bodies--as Isherwood put it--there were soldiers and sailors innumerable. Capote, for me, was the greatest American writer to have lived, and Tennessee was America's never-equaled playwright; Vidal was a chronicler of an America gone forever; Denham a source of inspiration who played his role to the hilt, beginning with his startling lifestyle and his absolute determination to be the world's best-kept male whore, to turn day into never-ending night, sighs into memories his men would never forget. Of them all, only Isherwood came away with the world's greatest prize, a boy who loved him even beyond his last breath.
Author: Michael Hone Publisher: Createspace Independent Publishing Platform ISBN: 9781534792685 Category : Languages : en Pages : 208
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The lives of these men relied on two legs, the first was work, so intensive that Capote was at times seen to concentrate to the point that it was feared he would rupture a temple vein, visibly swollen, and Williams, Isherwood and Vidal were no less impassioned. The second leg was feverish sex, Williams so wild that his partners in love had to leave the apartment in order to get rest. As for Vidal, he himself said he had had 1,000 different boys by age 25, and Isherwood claimed he had had 500 in Berlin alone. The role of Denham Fouts was to enliven these men, his body scent of vanilla and the scorpion tattoo at his groin that each kissed before moving on. Vidal featured Denham in his The Judgment of Paris, Isherwood invoked his American years with Denham in Down There on a Visit, and Capote in his ''Spoiled Monsters''. This book will concentrate on both aspects, their creative genius and their need for a second form of beauty, that of the boys their art attracted--followed, later, by boys drawn to the money it engendered. Their incessant work allowed them to buy the objects of their lust, especially in the Europe of Paris and Rome and Venice, of Taormina, Capri and Ischia, and, back home in the States, during the war when the blackout made California beaches a jungle of bodies--as Isherwood put it--there were soldiers and sailors innumerable. Capote, for me, was the greatest American writer to have lived, and Tennessee was America's never-equaled playwright; Vidal was a chronicler of an America gone forever; Denham a source of inspiration who played his role to the hilt, beginning with his startling lifestyle and his absolute determination to be the world's best-kept male whore, to turn day into never-ending night, sighs into memories his men would never forget. Of them all, only Isherwood came away with the world's greatest prize, a boy who loved him even beyond his last breath.
Author: Truman Capote Publisher: Univ. Press of Mississippi ISBN: 9780878052752 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 402
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"The thing I like to do most in the world is talk," Capote once said, & talk he does in the more than two dozen interviews collected in this book.
Author: Liliane Kerjan Publisher: Editorial El Ateneo ISBN: 9500211041 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : es Pages : 136
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"El cerebro puede recibir consejos, pero no el corazón, y el amor, que no tiene geografía, no conoce fronteras" Truman Capote Truman García Capote, que en realidad se llamaba Truman Streckfus Persons (1924-1984), quería ser bailarín de tap o cantante de club nocturno, pero se convirtió en un escritor prolífico y desconcertante. Atento, pero también temible, amigo fiel y observador implacable, generoso y egoísta, excelente deportista y bailarín, pero destruido por sus adicciones, Truman Capote fue todo eso y más. Sus obras capturan el espíritu de la época en la que brilló y a la que hizo brillar, obligando a la sociedad contemporánea a hacerse preguntas que conservan su actualidad. Su particular talento quedó demostrado tanto a través de obras de ficción, como Desayuno en Tiffany's, como de no ficción, género en el que fue pionero con la hoy clásica A sangre fría, que produjo una revolución en el mundo del periodismo. También tuvo una rica relación con el mundo del cine, ya que varias de sus obras fueron llevadas a la pantalla grande y él mismo fue actor en una ocasión. Esta amena biografía, a semejanza de su protagonista, es profunda en su análisis del hombre y en el conocimiento de su legado como escritor, a la vez que retrata los Estados Unidos de su época.
Author: Truman Capote Publisher: Vintage ISBN: 0375702415 Category : Biography & Autobiography Languages : en Pages : 487
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Spanning his entire life, this collection of private letters by the acclaimed author of In Cold Blood and other masterworks includes Capote's correspondence with David O. Selznick, Edith Sitwell, Cecil Beaton, Christopher Isherwood, Bennett Cerf, and Random House editor Robert Linscott, among many others. Reprint. 15,000 first printing.
Author: Arthur Vanderbilt Publisher: Riverdale Avenue Books ISBN: 9781936833412 Category : Male prostitutes Languages : en Pages : 0
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The Best-Kept Boy in the World is the first book ever written about Denham (Denny) Fouts (1914-1948), the twentieth century's most famous male prostitute. He was a socialite and muse whose extraordinary life started off humbly in Jacksonville, Florida. But in short order he befriend (and bedded) the rich and celebrated and in the process conquered the world.No less an august figure than the young Gore Vidal was enchanted by Denny's special charms. He twice modeled characters on Denny in his fiction, saying it was a pity that Denny never wrote a memoir. To Vidal he was "un homme fatal."Truman Capote, who devoted a third of Answered Prayers to Denny's life story, found that "to watch him walk into a room was an experience. He was beyond being good-looking; he was the single most charming-looking person I've ever seen."Writer Christopher Isherwood, who Denny considered his best friend, was more to the point: he called him "the most expensive male prostitute in the world." He thus served as the source for the character Paul in Isherwood's novel Down There on a Visit and appears as himself frequently in his published diaries.But Denny's conquests were not limited to the US alone.Somerset Maugham in England has Denny in his celebrated novel The Razor's Edge.To King Paul of Greece he was "my dear Denham" or "Darling Denham," and the King's telegrams to Denny from the Royal Palace always were signed "love, Paul."Peter Watson, the wealthy financial backer of the popular British literary magazine Horizon, had an erection whenever he was in the same room with Denny.The artist Michael Wishart met Denny for the first time at a party in Paris and realized instantly he was in love and that "the only place in the world I wanted to be was in Denham's bedroom."And Lord Tredegar, one of the largest landowners in Great Britain, saw Denny being led by the police through the lobby of an expensive hotel in Capri, convinced the police to let him pay the bills Denny owed, and then took Denny to accompany him and his wife as they continued on their tour of the world.It was because of lofty connections such as these that Capote echoed Isherwood's remark by quipping that Denny was the "best-kept boy in the world," thereby coming up with the title of the chapter in Answered Prayers about Denny.In his short life, Denny achieved a mythic status, and this book follows him into his rarified world of barons and shipping tycoons, lords, princes, heirs of great fortunes, artists, and authors. Here is the story of an American original, a story with an amazing cast of unforgettable characters and extraordinary settings, the book Gore Vidal wished Denny had written.
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