P.B. Jones discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published.

A brilliantly malicious expose of the literary jet-set. when Answered Prayers first appeared in excerpts in Esquire magazine, it outraged Capote's society friends, who recognized thinly veiled portraits of themselves in these scandalous fictional 'memoirs'.

P B Jones is the amoral, bisexual protagonist of this great, unfinished novel, who discovers that bed-hopping rather than literary ability is the way to get published.

Living by his wits and hs charm, Jones makes his way through the exotic boudoirs of the glitterati - only to discover that the prayers that are answered cause more pain than those that remain ignored.