by Truman Capote · Seix Barral · tapa dura · ISBN 9788432221231
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«A sangre fría» is Truman Capote's nonfiction chronicle, published by Seix Barral in hardback (365 pages, in Spanish).
The work reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, alternating the lives of the victims with those of the perpetrators. Capote delves into the personalities of Perry Smith and Dick Hickock and the circumstances surrounding the crime, with a style combining journalistic rigour and literary technique to shape the genre of the nonfiction novel.
Published in 1984 by Seix Barral in its collection of masterpieces, it is considered a pioneering work of narrative journalism.
Recommended for readers interested in true crime, journalistic reportage and documentary literature with narrative ambition.
Truman Garcia Capote was an American novelist, screenwriter, playwright, and actor. Several of his short stories, novels, and plays have been praised as literary classics, and he is regarded as one of the founders of New Journalism, along with Gay Talese, Hunter S. Thompson, Norman Mailer, Joan Didion, and Tom Wolfe. His work and his life story have been adapted into and have been the subject of more than 20 films and television productions.
