In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time

From the Modern Libraryâ€™s new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capoteâ€”also available are Breakfast at Tiffanyâ€™s and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories

Truman Capoteâ€™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 â€œnew journalism.â€ Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. â€œI thought he was a very nice gentleman,â€ he says of Herb Clutter. â€œSoft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.â€ 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 killersâ€™ flight, Capoteâ€™s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
Country USA
Brand Modern Library
Manufacturer Modern Library
Binding Hardcover
ItemPartNumber 9780812994384
Color Multicolor
ReleaseDate 2013-02-19
UnitCount 1
EANs 9780812994384

Country	USA
Brand	Modern Library
Manufacturer	Modern Library
Binding	Hardcover
ItemPartNumber	9780812994384
Color	Multicolor
ReleaseDate	2013-02-19
UnitCount	1
EANs	9780812994384

In Cold Blood (Modern Library 100 Best Nonfiction Books)

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