In Cold Blood Contributor(s): Capote, Truman (Author) |
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ISBN: 0812994388 ISBN-13: 9780812994384 Publisher: Modern Library
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Hardcover - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: February 2013 Click for more in this series: Modern Library (Hardcover) |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - True Crime | Murder - Mass Murder - Language Arts & Disciplines | Journalism - Social Science | Criminology |
Dewey: 364.152 |
LCCN: 2012462484 |
Lexile Measure: 1040(Not Available) |
Series: Modern Library (Hardcover) |
Physical Information: 1.12" H x 5.69" W x 8.28" L (1.18 lbs) 416 pages |
Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950's - Chronological Period - 1960's - Geographic Orientation - Kansas |
Features: Dust Cover, Price on Product, Price on Product - Canadian |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 79631 Reading Level: 7.1 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 21.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: Selected by the Modern Library as one of the 100 best nonfiction books of all time From the Modern Library's new set of beautifully repackaged hardcover classics by Truman Capote--also available are Breakfast at Tiffany's and Other Voices, Other Rooms (in one volume), Portraits and Observations, and The Complete Stories Truman Capote'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 "new journalism." Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. "I thought he was a very nice gentleman," he says of Herb Clutter. "Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." 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 killers' flight, Capote's account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events. |
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