The Swans of Fifth Avenue
Melanie Benjamin
From the New York Times bestselling author of The Aviator’s Wife comes an enthralling new novel about Truman Capote’s scandalous, headline-making, and heart-wrenching friendship with Babe Paley and New York’s society “swans” of the 1950s. Centered on two dynamic, complicated, and compelling protagonists—Truman Capote and Babe Paley—this book is steeped in the glamour and perfumed and smoky atmosphere of New York’s high society. Babe Paley—known for her high-profile marriage to CBS founder William Paley and her ranking in the International Best-Dressed Hall of Fame—was one of the reigning monarchs of New York’s high society in the 1950s. Replete with gossip, scandal, betrayal, and a vibrant cast of real-life supporting characters, readers will be seduced by this startling new look at the infamous society swans.
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I am a huge Melanie Benjamin fan and was elated to yet again receive an advance copy of her book. This one though was not one I enjoyed. The story of Truman Capote and Babe Paley was one, like Benjamin's other books, I knew should even be a story. But in the end I was left flat. I didn't care about the characters. It seemed cliche that they have seemingly perfect lives but then they aren't. The gossiping just makes me loathe them even more. I'm feeling the exact same way when I read The Casual Vacancy - one of my all time favorite authors writing about the over-privileged in a novel that I am not a fan of in the end.
0I didn't really care for this book. It was kind of boring, as all the characters really did was shop, eat, and go to parties.
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