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In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

ISBN: 9780141038391
Release Date: 01 Sep 2008
Average rating: (read by 130 members)

Categories: True crime

Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood created a genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with its unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil.

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	readingbee Full Review
	Rated it 1 months ago

I feel that anything I say about Capote's writing will be insignificant. He is the man! - well for me, one amongst many. This is a crime thriller, a genre I don't normally read. However I was held by the story not only from the crime point of view but...

	berkerboy
	Rated it 8 months ago

Horrific, but intriguing.

	singerman
	Rated it 10 months ago

Capote's highly original journalistic novel is a captivating piece of literature and a fascinating study of murder.

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