Raul Hernandez’s Reviews > Capote, A Biography > Status Update

It seems Truman has finally put the drinking to the side and he is now writing all his newer pieces of literature. He gets some praise but finds himself in a fued with a close friend. They ultimately settle it and he looks forward to starting off a new decade fresh.

So, Capote has a drinking problem. He can't keep his relationship with John and they're having trouble. He accuses John of steeling twenty thousand dollars and John maintains it was a gift to him. Capote enters a clinic for alcoholics only to start drinking vodka hours later of completing the program. He's getting older now and wishes revenge on his former lover. So he hires someone else to set John's car on fire.

It's a pretty good read over all. I like how the chapters aren't too long but the book is quite lengthy itself. I'm nearing the end and he just threw the biggest party of the century or so, pretty cool.