by Truman Capote · Ediciones El País, · tapa dura · ISBN 9788489669345
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«A sangre fría» is Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, published by Ediciones El País in hardback (495 pages, in Spanish).
In 1959, four members of the Clutter family are murdered in their home in a Kansas town, a crime with no apparent motive. Truman Capote reconstructs the investigation, the lives of the victims, and the profiles of the two convicted men, Dick Hickcock and Perry Smith, whom the reader comes to know intimately. A pioneering work of the nonfiction novel.
Original title: In Cold Blood, translated by Fernando Rodríguez. Belongs to the collection «Clásicos del siglo XX», number 14. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award in 1966.
For readers of crime reportage and nonfiction, as well as for those who want to discover a classic of twentieth-century literature.
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.
