In Cold Blood
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy. 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. 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.
Five years, four months and twenty-nine days later, on April 14, 1965, Richard Eugene Hickock, aged thirty-three, and Perry Edward Smith, aged thirty-six, were hanged from the crime on a gallows in a warehouse in the Kansas State Penitentiary in Lansing, Kansa.
In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and deaths of these six people. It has already been hailed as a masterpiece.
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-27-2009
- A Remarkable Page-Turner Even Though You Already Know the Outcome
When a book like IN COLD BLOOD reaches the level of being a classic, there has to be a reason. Consider the following two excerpts: "The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-26-2009
- best novel ever written
Mesmerizing, stands the test of time, makes a difference. The novel any aspiring writer would love to write. Sets the bar and puts all other true crime to shame.
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- 4/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-31-2009
- Groundbreaking Work
The remarkable thing about this book is that it's a true story written like a novel. Capote took the true story of a small town murder in Kansas and wrote it in a way that had never been done before. Unlike your typical true crime...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Aug-01-2009
- Capote at His Peak
Entering the pantheon of American classics, this work is a bone-chilling account of four murders. Almost random in their occurrence, the murders are perpetrated by an odd pair of ex-cons out to rob what they thought was a rich man living...
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- 5/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Sep-27-2009
- A Remarkable Page-Turner Even Though You Already Know the Outcome
When a book like IN COLD BLOOD reaches the level of being a classic, there has to be a reason. Consider the following two excerpts: "The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of...
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- 3/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Oct-14-2007
- Too cluttered
The violent murders of Herbert and Bonnie Clutter and their two youngest children: Nancy and Kenyon in 1959 became a media sensation as these violent crimes are wont to do. Inspired by a 300 word summary of the crime in the New York...
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- 2/5
- From: Amazon
- Posted: Jul-14-2009
- Depressing
Though this book is well written, I just didn't have the stomach for it. If you love to look at the morbid side of life, however, this is your book. It forces you to look at ugly brutality, and even to empathize with nearly every...
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