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In Cold Blood

Amazon ASIN: 0679745580 LowestNewPrice CurrencyCode USD LowestNewPrice FormattedPrice $4.96 LowestUsedPrice CurrencyCode USD LowestUsedPrice FormattedPrice $0.99 LowestCollectiblePrice CurrencyCode USD LowestCollectiblePrice FormattedPrice $14.00 TotalNew 76 TotalUsed 249 TotalCollectible 9 TotalRefurbished 0

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Author Truman Capote Binding Paperback DeweyDecimalNumber 364.15230978144 EAN 9780679745587 ISBN 0679745580 Label Vintage Type Original Language Type Unknown Type Published CurrencyCode USD FormattedPrice $14.95 Manufacturer Vintage NumberOfItems 1 NumberOfPages 368 ProductGroup Book PublicationDate 1994-02-01 Publisher Vintage ReleaseDate 1994-02-01 Studio Vintage Title In Cold Blood

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Product Description
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.

Amazon.com Review
"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.

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