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In Cold Blood
 

In Cold Blood

by Truman Capote

In Cold Blood was a groundbreaking work when released in 1966. With it, author Truman Capote contributed to a style of writing in which the reporter gets so far inside the subject, becomes so familiar, that he projects events and conversations as if he were really there. The style has probably never been accomplished better than in this book. Capote combined painstaking research with a ... (read more)

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Tinky
  • Rated 5 stars

“Truman Capote’s towering master work, and also his most atypical. What began as an article for The New Yorker about the effects of a brutal multiple murder on a small Midwestern town became, with the capture of the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, a searing full-length study of the criminal mind and a sickening dissection of the ambiguity of good and evil.

With “In Cold Blood,” Capote claimed the invention of a new genre, “the non-fiction novel,” and as one reads one can...”

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  • Rated 4.209049 stars
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  • Rated 4.4375 stars
  

Newest Comments

  • Sandy B Groovy

    sandy b groovy said:

    “What you say or do, always effects others. What if Dick and Perry never heard that false story about the farmer with the hidden money? Would the Clutter family be here today?”

    posted 3 weeks ago ( | view 1 reply )
  • Tim H

    tim h said:

    “The first chapter alone makes this book worth the read.”

    posted Friday, August 15 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
  • sophia j

    sophia j said:

    “bored me out my mind.. i was forced to read it”

    posted Thursday, August 7 2008
  • Georgecaparas

    georgecaparas said:

    “I think the quiet, rural setting made the murders all the more frightening.”

    posted Saturday, May 24 2008
  • Andrea

    andrea said:

    “After seeing the movie "Capote," I was enamored with Truman Capote and had to get my hands on the book that the rest of world has read (or so it seems); In Cold Blood." A non-fiction tale of the chilling murders of four family members in Holcomb, Kansas in 1959. There was quite the fanfare when Truman Capote of the Hollywood elite wrote his "non-fiction novel" of the happenings. I found the book to be gripping, chilling and the usage of language was top notch. There were sections where you vacillated and felt if not compassion, then an understanding for the criminals' behavior, which is just what the author was aiming for. On to the 1965 movie for me now!”

    posted Friday, April 11 2008 ( | view 1 reply )
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