Name: In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)
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Author: Truman Capote
ISBN: 9780812994384

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In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

Type

Physical Book

Author

Truman Capote

Publisher

Modern Library

Year

2013

Language

English

Pages

416

Format

Hardcover

Dimensions

21.0 x 14.5 x 2.8 cm

Weight

0.54 kg.

ISBN

0812994388

ISBN13

9780812994384

Synopsis "In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books) "

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories 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.

Truman Capote

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Truman Capote (1924-1984) was an American writer, journalist, and screenwriter, known for his innovative style and his ability to blend literature with journalism. His most influential work is In Cold Blood (1966), considered one of the first non-fiction novels, in which he narrates the murder of a family in Kansas.

Among his other notable works are Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), a short novel that inspired the famous movie of the same name, and Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948), his literary debut. Capote primarily wrote novels, short stories, and investigative chronicles, characterized by their psychological depth and elegant prose. His legacy continues in contemporary literature.

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