by Truman Capote · Penguin Classics · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780141182575
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«In Cold Blood» is Truman Capote's true crime chronicle, published by Penguin Classics in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Truman Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family, which took place in 1959 in Holcomb, Kansas, based on exhaustive research. The work follows the police investigation, profiles the two young culprits, Perry Smith and Dick Hickock, and shows the impact of the event on the community. A pioneer of true crime, it combines journalistic rigour and great narrative force.
Work originally published in 1965; this Penguin Modern Classics edition dates from 2000.
Aimed at readers of true crime and modern classics of American 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.
