by Truman Capote · Penguin · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780140274189
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«In Cold Blood» is Truman Capote's nonfiction novel, published by Penguin in paperback (352 pages, in English).
Capote reconstructs the murder of the Clutter family in Kansas in 1959 and the subsequent investigation. The narrative follows agent Al Dewey and portrays the killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, as well as the consequences of the crime. A pioneering work of true crime, it combines the rigor of narrative journalism with evocative prose that captivates.
Original subtitle: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences. Winner of the Edgar Allan Poe Award for best true crime work in 1966.
Recommended for readers of true crime and narrative journalism, and for those seeking a twentieth-century nonfiction classic.
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.
