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In Cold Blood

A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences (Transaction Large Print Books)

By Truman Capote

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| Hardcover | 9781560004516

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Book 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.

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In Cold Blood

In Cold Blood I first read In Cold Blood years ago, so many that I couldn’t remember much about it except that I enjoyed it. I suppose the fact that I liked it shouldn’t be surprising; the book is a 20th century American classic, the progenitor of 36 ... (read full critics)

likesbooks published on Tue, 31 Aug 2010

Truman Capote’s Score

Poor dead Bonnie Clutter appeared to a friend in a dream. “To be murdered,” she wept. “No. No. There’s nothing worse. Nothing worse than that. Nothing.” In Cold Blood is strewn with snatches of pregnant speech, with glimpses of things that grow and g ... (read full critics)

nybooks published on Mon, 23 Aug 2010

8 Reviews

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Heart of darkness
«Duntz asked Smith, 'Added up, how much money did you get from the Clutters?'
'Between forty and fifty dollars'.»

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Claire N. said on Jul 10, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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The detailed chronicle of a crime as an excuse to expose the horror hidden in the depths of the human soul.
Or simply a magnificent book!

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Bedo said on Apr 8, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

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Super good...

I plowed right thought it; it was a great read, and proved to me that Capote is worth the hype. I literally could not stop reading! It's disturbing, but captivating. It's all created so vividly that at times you feel part of the horror story, and don't want to put it down for fear you might lose you ... (continue)

I plowed right thought it; it was a great read, and proved to me that Capote is worth the hype. I literally could not stop reading! It's disturbing, but captivating. It's all created so vividly that at times you feel part of the horror story, and don't want to put it down for fear you might lose your nerve to continue.

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Katelyn said on Oct 10, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

a work of journalistic genius, widely acknowleged, brilliantly relaying the vacuous pointlessness of a particular crime. no doubt it appeared extraordinary in its brutality and randomness to contemporary americans. today, it feels commonplace. which says something...

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jon brown said on Feb 19, 2012 | Add your feedback

A report of a bloody and meaningless crime and a peek in the Kansas crime history of the 60's.
The topic is deeply knot to real life but in a sense the account of the murder is shaped by the fiction.
Yet the writer uses some good narrative tecniques like the juxtapositions of the criminals' lives an ... (continue)

A report of a bloody and meaningless crime and a peek in the Kansas crime history of the 60's.
The topic is deeply knot to real life but in a sense the account of the murder is shaped by the fiction.
Yet the writer uses some good narrative tecniques like the juxtapositions of the criminals' lives and those of the Clutters', which go both hand by hand till the murderous climax. In addition, the reader can perceive that from a certain point of the narration the writer uses Smith's idiolect, choosing the therms that Perry wants to learn in his thirst for education.

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AnnaLuce said on Feb 17, 2010 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback

My edition

It's Paperback, Penguin Books, 'Penguin Classics'.
ISBN 978-0-141-18257-5

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Arkady said on Dec 16, 2008 about the Paperback edition | Add your feedback