In Cold Blood (Hardcover)

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.

General

Imprint:	Modern Library Inc
Country of origin:	United States
Series:	Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books
Release date:	February 2013
First published:	February 2013
Authors:	Truman Capote
Dimensions:	210 x 145 x 30mm (L x W x T)
Format:	Hardcover - Cloth over boards / With dust jacket
Pages:	396
ISBN-13:	978-0-8129-9438-4
Categories:	Books > Fiction > Special features > Classic fiction Books > Fiction > Genre fiction > Crime & mystery > General Promotions Books > Fiction > Promotions
LSN:	0-8129-9438-8
Barcode:	9780812994384

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