In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / Truman Capote.
2013
HV6533.K3 C3 2013 (Mapit)
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Title
In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences / Truman Capote.
Edition
2013 Modern Library edition.
ISBN
9780812994384 (hardcover)
0812994388 (hardcover)
0812994388 (hardcover)
Published
New York, New York : Modern Library, an imprint of the Random House Publishing Group, 2013.
Language
English
Description
viii, 396 pages ; 21 cm
Call Number
HV6533.K3 C3 2013
Dewey Decimal Classification
364.152/30978144
Summary
Overview: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time. Truman Capote's masterpiece, In Cold Blood, created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers' flight, Capote's account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
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Originally published: New York : Random House, ©1965.
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Truman Capote
Acknowledgments
Last to see them alive
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Corner.
Acknowledgments
Last to see them alive
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Corner.