In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics)

Capote, Truman

ISBN 10: 0141182571 / ISBN 13: 9780141182575

Published by Penguin Classics, 2000

About this Item

Dispatched, from the UK, within 48 hours of ordering. Though second-hand, the book is still in very good shape. Minimal signs of usage may include very minor creasing on the cover or on the spine.

Seller Inventory # CHL1361544

Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Cold Blood : A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Penguin Modern Classics)
• Publisher: Penguin Classics
• Publication Date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0141182571
• ISBN 13: 9780141182575
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: Used; Very Good

About this title

Synopsis

Reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife and both their children. In this title, the author's study of the killings and subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime and the effect it had on those

Review

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 narrative feel to produce one of the most spellbinding stories ever put on the page. Two two-time losers living in a lonely house in western Kansas are out to make the heist of their life, but when things don't go as planned, the robbery turns ugly. From there, the book is a real-life look into murder, prison, and the criminal mind.