02265cam a2200349 i 4500 268545744 TxAuBib 20160728120000.0 141222s2016||||||||||||||||||||||||eng|u 2014048099 9780345528698 0345528697 TxAuBib rda Benjamin, Melanie. The Swans of Fifth Avenue : a novel / Melanie Benjamin. First edition. New York : Delacorte Press, [2016] xvii, 341 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm. txt rdacontent n rdamedia nc rdacarrier Of all the glamorous stars of New York high society, none blazes brighter than Babe Paley. Her flawless face regularly graces the pages of Vogue, and she is celebrated and adored for her ineffable style and exquisite taste, especially among her friends -- the alluring socialites Slim Keith, C. Z. Guest, Gloria Guinness, and Pamela Churchill. By all appearances, Babe has it all: money, beauty, glamour, jewels, influential friends, a prestigious husband, and gorgeous homes. But beneath this elegantly composed exterior dwells a passionate woman -- a woman desperately longing for true love and connection. Enter Truman Capote. This diminutive golden-haired genius with a larger-than-life personality explodes onto the scene, setting Babe and her circle of Swans aflutter. Through Babe, Truman gains an unlikely entrée into the enviable lives of Manhattan's elite, along with unparalleled access to the scandal and gossip of Babe's powerful circle. Sure of the loyalty of the man she calls "True Heart, " Babe never imagines the destruction Truman will leave in his wake. But once a storyteller, always a storyteller -- even when the stories aren't his to tell. 20160728. cat rda:d 20160415 kjw. sr YBP 20160304. Capote, Truman, 1924-1984 Fiction. Paley, Babe Mortimer Fiction. Gossip Fiction. Socialites Fiction. Upper class New York (State) New York Fiction. Biographical fiction.