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In Cold Blood

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

By Truman Capote

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Category: U.S. History

Category: Reference | Classics

Category: U.S. History

Category: U.S. History | Audiobooks

Category: U.S. History | Audiobooks

Paperback $16.00

Feb 01, 1994 | 368 Pages

Hardcover $24.00

Feb 19, 2013 | 416 Pages

Ebook $11.99

Oct 09, 2001 | 432 Pages

CD $34.95

Jan 03, 2006 | 870 Minutes

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    About In Cold Blood

    National Bestseller 

    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

    As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

    About In Cold Blood

    Selected 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.

    About In Cold Blood

    National Bestseller 

    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

    As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

    About In Cold Blood

    National Bestseller 

    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

    As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

    About In Cold Blood

    National Bestseller 

    On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues. 

    As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.

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    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    About Truman Capote

    Truman Capote was born September 30, 1924, in New Orleans. After his parents’ divorce, he was sent to live with relatives in Monroeville, Alabama. It was here he would meet his lifelong friend, the author Harper Lee. Capote rose to… More about Truman Capote

    Product Details

    Category: U.S. History

    Paperback | $16.00
    Published by Vintage
    Feb 01, 1994 | 368 Pages | 5-3/16 x 8 | ISBN 9780679745587

    Category: Reference | Classics

    Hardcover | $24.00
    Published by Modern Library
    Feb 19, 2013 | 416 Pages | 5-3/8 x 8 | ISBN 9780812994384

    Category: U.S. History

    Ebook | $11.99
    Published by Vintage
    Oct 09, 2001 | 432 Pages | ISBN 9781588361653

    Category: U.S. History | Audiobooks

    CD | $34.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 03, 2006 | 870 Minutes | ISBN 9780739333648

    Category: U.S. History | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $22.50
    Published by Random House Audio
    Jan 03, 2006 | 870 Minutes | ISBN 9780739333655

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    “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

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