In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

ISBN 10: 0241956838 / ISBN 13: 9780241956830

Published by Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2012, 2012

About this Item

Neuware -Truman Capote was born in New Orleans in 1925. By the age of fourteen he had already started writing short stories, some of which were published. After leaving school at fifteen he worked for the New Yorker, his first - and last - regular job. Following this Capote spent two years on a Louisiana farm where he wrote Other Voices, Other Rooms (1948). He lived, at one time or another, in Greece, Italy, Africa and the West Indies, and travelled in Russia and the Orient. Capote is the author of many highly acclaimed books, including A Tree of Night and Other Stories (1949), The Grass Harp (1951), Breakfast at Tiffany's (1958), In Cold Blood (1965), which immediately became the centre of a storm of controversy on its publication, Music for Chameleons (1980) and Answered Prayers (1986). Truman Capote died in 1984.Petersen Buchimport GmbH, Weidestraße 122 a, 22083 Hamburg 352 pp. Englisch.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: In Cold Blood
• Publisher: Penguin Books Ltd Apr 2012
• Publication Date: 2012
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0241956838
• ISBN 13: 9780241956830
• Binding: Taschenbuch
• Condition: Neu
• Dimensions: 188W x 113H x 28D millimeters 188 millimeters width by 113 millimeters height by 28 millimeters depth
• Weight: 198 grams

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Synopsis

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, a wealthy farmer, his wife and their two young children were found brutally murdered. Blood all over the walls, the telephone lines cut, and only a few dollars stolen. Heading up the investigatio

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.