by Truman Capote · Círculo De Lectores · tapa dura · ISBN 9788467217094
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«A sangre fría» is Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, published by Círculo de Lectores in hardback (433 pages, in Spanish).
On 15 November 1959, the four members of the Clutter family are murdered in their home in a small Kansas town with no apparent motive. Truman Capote reconstructs the crime, the investigation and the profiles of the condemned men, Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, up to their execution, combining journalistic reporting with the techniques of the novel.
Originally published in 1966 as «In Cold Blood», it received the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best true crime work. The Spanish translation is by Fernando Rodríguez.
Aimed at readers of nonfiction and true crime looking for a twentieth-century classic of narrative journalism.
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.
