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In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
by Truman Capote
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About This Book
ISBN13: 9780679745587 |
Synopses & Reviews
Publisher Comments:
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged for the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansas.
In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
Synopsis:
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.
About the Author
Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel, Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (The Grass Harp and Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in the New Yorker (The Duke in His Domain and The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (The Grass Harp and House of Flowers), and two films (Beat the Devil and The Innocents).
Mr. Capote twice won the O. Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
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stephanie, May 17, 2008 (view all comments by stephanie)
Brilliant.
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Jonathan, February 15, 2008 (view all comments by Jonathan)
Capote ties together recollections, testimonies, conversations, and letters to paint a vivid picture of this horrendous crime and its aftermath. It's like a car wreck: terrible, yet you can't peel your eyes away without finding out what really happened. The writing is a little uneven towards the end but for the most part Capote is a masterful storyteller with a gripping tale.
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shirleyguffey, April 22, 2007 (view all comments by shirleyguffey)
I thought that the book was very well written and very descriptive about the town and the people. I could picture the people, in particular the Clutter family.
It helps me to know how to write my own two novels that I have started. It also has very good dialogue.
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Product Details
- ISBN:
- 9780679745587
- Subtitle:
- A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
- Author:
- Publisher:
- Vintage Books USA
- Location:
- New York :
- Subject:
- Murder
- Subject:
- Criminology
- Subject:
- Crime and criminals
- Subject:
- Sociology, anthropology and archaeology
- Subject:
- Case studies
- Subject:
- Murder -- Kansas -- Case studies.
- Subject:
- Meurtre
- Subject:
- Murder - General
- Copyright:
- 1994
- Edition Description:
- Vintage Intl
- Publication Date:
- February 1994
- Binding:
- Paperback
- Language:
- English
- Illustrations:
- Y
- Pages:
- 368
- Dimensions:
- 8.06x5.18x.81 in. .58 lbs.
