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PublisherRandom House Publishing Group

ISBN-100812994388

ISBN-139780812994384

eBay Product ID (ePID)143357444

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Book TitleIn Cold Blood

Number of Pages416 Pages

LanguageEnglish

Publication Year2013

TopicMurder / General, Journalism, Criminology

GenreTrue Crime, Language Arts & Disciplines, Social Science

AuthorTruman Capote

Book SeriesModern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Bks.

FormatHardcover

Dimensions

Item Height1.1 in

Item Weight18 Oz

Item Length8.4 in

Item Width5.8 in

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Intended AudienceTrade

LCCN2012-462484

Dewey Edition23

Reviews"A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work." -- Life "A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' " -- The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing." -- The New York Review of Books, "A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work." - Life "A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' " - The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing." - The New York Review of Books, "A masterpiece ... a spellbinding work." -- Life "A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' " -- The New York Times "The best documentary account of an American crime ever written ... The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence ... harrowing." -- The New York Review of Books

Dewey Decimal364.152/30978144

SynopsisSelected 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.

LC Classification NumberHV6533.K3C3 2013

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by perry1489
May 28, 2024
Great book, great movie. I was 11 years old and remember this tragic story.
Great book, great movie. I was 11 years old and remember this tragic story.
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May 04, 2018
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