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In Cold Blood

Truman Capote

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In Cold Blood Truman Capote “This book is a nonfiction novel, and it's — that's a term that Capote himself sort of invented; and it is a recounting of the murders of four people, the Clutter family, in the 1950's in Kansas. The book itself follows the arch of both the family as they are leading up to the murders and then the town after the murders, but it also follows the story of the two murderers themselves in the days and weeks leading up to the murders and then following the murders. I think this was a very original concept, and the reason I think that is because Capote himself said, "This is nothing that's ever been done before." Really, it was. It was completely factual, and yet the narrator is not present — Capote himself is not present in the book at all. He writes it exactly like a novel, complete with fully developed scenes, interiority with characters, and precise details about the most minute things that happened on those days. The thing I was most impressed by was Capote's obvious research and then the way in which he turned that research into narrative. I don't think there was anything I didn't like about this book. I was riveted from the moment I started to the moment I finished. A lot of attention is paid to the psychological life going on inside the head of this young man who was the one that committed the murders. I think I have to give this book five stars out of five. It's — it was such a groundbreaking work when it came out, and it's just been amazing to read.”