In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences

Capote, Truman

ISBN 10: 0816156646 / ISBN 13: 9780816156641

Published by Vintage Books, 1993

About this Item

This book is a well used but readable copy. Integrity of the book is still intact with no missing pages. May have notes or highlighting. Cover image on the book may vary from photo. Ships out quickly in a secure plastic mailer.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences
• Publisher: Vintage Books
• Publication Date: 1993
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0816156646
• ISBN 13: 9780816156641
• Binding: Soft cover
• Condition: acceptable

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Synopsis

An account of the senseless murder of a Kansas farm family and the search for the killers

Review

"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.