In Cold Blood
By Truman Capote
Harry Hartog's review
Do you like murder? Mmhmm. Do you like true crime reporting? Oh yeah. Do you like mild truths altered for fantastical storytelling? Hell yeah! Good Lord will you LOVE Philip Seymour Hoff.. - I mean - Truman Capote’s final work. Dramatising the true story of Western Kentucky’s Clutter family murders, Truman (we’re tight) spins a tale of two mass murderers out on the lam with wind in their hair and blood on their hands. A genuine pioneer of the genre, combining true crime reporting with a bodaciously mythical curve, he lays the groundwork for future authors to bastardise the “nonfiction novel”. All in all, Truman Capote puts forth a masterpiece in story-telling tragedy. - Dave, Accounts
Description
Truman Capote's In Cold Blood is both a masterpiece of journalism and a powerful crime thriller. Inspired by a 300-word article in The New York Times, Capote spent six years exploring and writing the story of Kansas farmer Herb Clutter, his family and the two young killers who brutally murdered them. In Cold Blood created a genre of novelistic non-fiction and made Capote's name with its unflinching portrayal of a comprehensible and thoroughly human evil.
- ISBN:
- 9780141038391
- Format:
- Paperback
- Pages:
- 352
- Published:
- Publisher:
- Penguin Books Ltd
- Imprint:
- Penguin Books Ltd