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Item Details
Title:
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IN COLD BLOOD
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By: |
Truman Capote |
Format: |
Paperback |
List price:
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£29.50 |
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ISBN 10: |
1560005378 |
ISBN 13: |
9781560005377 |
Publisher: |
TAYLOR & FRANCIS INC |
Pub. date: |
7 October, 2006 |
Edition: |
Large type / large print edition |
Pages: |
434 |
Description: |
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. |
Synopsis: |
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were viciously murdered by blasts from a shotgun held only inches from their faces. There were almost no clues and no apparent motive for the crime. Five years later, two men were hanged for the crime on a gallows in the Kansas State Penitentiary. In Cold Blood is the story of the lives and death of these six people. The reader is mesmerized with suspense and astonishing empathy as Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers. It is a powerful story of inexorable crime and punishment, even more powerful for underscoring the awareness that it is reality, not literature. It is arguably Truman Capote's masterpiece. |
Illustrations: |
black & white illustrations |
Publication: |
UK |
Imprint: |
Transaction Publishers |
Returns: |
Non-returnable |
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