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# Deliberate Cruelty: Truman Capote, the Millionaire's Wife, and the Murder of the Century

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## Customer Reviews

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐⭐ 5.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    It's deja vu all over again
  

*by M***T on Reviewed in the United States on September 10, 2023*

If you're as fascinated by the "Woodward Saga" and its larger implications as I've always been, you'll like this latest addition to the collection. Nit-picking aside (alright already, Sarah C's a granddaughter, not a daughter, something that affects neither Ann nor Truman's tragic trajectory), this particular re-hash is reminiscent of Thorton Wilder's "The Bridge of San Luis Rey" with its star-crossed protagonists destined to meet in fate's whirlpool. It's happened  many times before, no doubt -but asking "why, after all those years?" is, like quibbling over minor points, beside the point. Things are never "put to bed" until everyone's dead -and not even then.I first fell under this story's hypnotic sway (and it's got it all!) after reading Dominick Dunne's "The Two Mrs. Grenvilles" (and thrilling to the TV miniseries) decades ago and I've since come to see how it's affected American pop culture ever since it happened. Ann Woodward weathered any number of storms at the time, being confronted with herself  everywhere, in everything from "Confidential"-style scandal rags to thinly-veiled films like Diana Dors' "The Unholy Wife" (original title "The Lady And The Prowler") and Arlene Dahl's "Wicked As They Come" -so why (because it's human nature to ask) did it take so long for everything to come full circle?Like Truman Capote, the French author Gustave Flaubert got his inspiration for "Madame Bovary" after reading a newspaper article detailing the sordid "domino effect" tragedy of one Delphine Delamare.  Many years after Flaubert's book was published, the real-life "Rudolphe", a "veritable Cain, emigrated to America, then came back and killed himself on a Parisian boulevard, possibly from remorse. This cannot have been part of Flaubert's intention." Nor Capote's, but turning trash into art can come at a price for those involved, even decades after the fact. It's deja vu all over again no matter how long the passage of time.Ms. Montillo's account of the time leading up to Ann Woodward's fatal overdose is fairly sympathetic, all things considered, but Truman Capote's "Answered Prayers" does leave an unanswered question that's certainly in the realm of the possible:Unlike attempts, actual suicides are rarely spur-of-the-moment and Ann had most likely been contemplating her exit for quite some time but, that said, could she, after learning an excerpt of Capote's roman-a-clef was soon to be published in "Esquire" magazine, have decided to take him to the grave with her, metaphorically speaking -a revenge she'd never live to see? "Vengeance from beyond" is fairly common, in fact. For instance, before actress Lupe Velez killed herself and their unborn child, she left a suicide note laying the blame at her lover's feet and, like Gene Tierney's end in "Leave Her To Heaven", if Ann Woodward had already killed once...This book is highly recommended for those who, like me, were (and still are) smitten by it all and can't seem to get enough, "nit-pickers' and "purists" be damned. A "breezy" read, too, and yes, a "page-turner", to boot -when's the next one coming out?

### ⭐⭐⭐⭐ 4.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Interesting but not great.
  

*by M***N on Reviewed in the United States on July 20, 2023*

Having read other books regarding the subject, it pretty much tells the same tale. Capote's obsession of Ann Woodward and his betrayal of the secrets his Swans told him was the cause of his downward spiral. There is one thing I came across that bothers me. There is a line in the book regarding Sarah Churchill whom the authors wrote was the daughter of Consuelo Vanderbilt when she was married to the Duke of Marlborough. That is not true. Consuelo Vanderbilt only have two children...both sons. She never had a daughter. However, she did have a granddaughter by the name of Sarah from her oldest son who went on to inherit the dukedom. This was something to very easy to check and should have been.

### ⭐⭐⭐ 3.0 out of 5 stars







  
  
    Would have made a great article
  

*by P***L on Reviewed in the United States on May 29, 2023*

The prose of this book flows effortlessly.  That's the good part.  The first two-thirds gives background on the various characters that for most readers will be common knowledge.  The last slightly-less-than a third gets to the deliberate cruelty, which it must be said is also familiar to many readers, especially those who have read Answered Prayers and its editorial introduction.  The perhaps most valuable portion is the source notes and bibliography which complete the padding on the list third.  On the other hand, if one is a novice in matters Capote or is looking for bibliographic clues for a term paper, this is easily the book to read.

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