Truman Capote's Classic Novel "In Cold Blood"

m querns: I love Truman Capote writing style an interesting case for sure! Another can't put it down book.

Canada on Jan 21, 2024

Kirk: Mr Capote's book hardly needs my endorsement. I did wonder if a book written almost 60 years ago, still holds up to its reputation as a classic, in its genre. I can say without reservation, that it does. The research and in-depth background on all the primary principals is incredible. The reader comes to know the victims, as well, as the perpetrators. There is something haunting about all of them. I think it will be a long time before, I forget any of them. While it is difficult to sympathize with killers, I can't help but wonder if a few things in their lives had gone differently, if they might not have become productive members of society. The extraordinary kindness of the sheriff's wife is an example we can all learn from. The poignant ending reminds us that despite great tragedy, life goes on.

United States on Dec 16, 2023

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Spain on Dec 22, 2022

Jason West: Throughout this novel, it discusses the death penalty and the judicial system’s role in deciding the outcome of the trial. In Cold Blood, written by Truman Capote, illustrates how quickly a small town turned on each other in the mists of tragedy when they believed the murderer to be one of their own. The book follows the life and death of the Clutter family and the lifespan of Perry and Dick. Perry and Dick are both convicted felons, Capote illustrates their lives together after they were released from jail as well as flashbacks from times in their life before jail. Perry Smith and Dick Hickok were partners after jail despite the dramatic contrasts in their childhoods. Perry had a traumatic childhood, with 2 of his siblings dead before the time he turned 30. He also suffered from a motorcycle accident which disfigured the lower half of his body and caused him to become addicted to painkillers. Dick lived a somewhat normal childhood with 2 loving parents. The Clutter’s were a well-respected wealthy family in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas. On November 15, 1959, the Clutter family was killed with a shotgun held a few inches away from their face. Alvin Dewey, the lead...

United States on Nov 30, 2022

Steve Koss: When a book like IN COLD BLOOD reaches the level of being a classic, there has to be a reason. Consider the following two excerpts:

"The land is flat, and the views are awesomely extensive; horses, herds of cattle, a white cluster of grain elevators rising as gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them."

"Then, starting home, he walked toward the trees, and under them, leaving behind him the big sky, the whisper of wind voices in the wind-bent wheat." The former excerpt is from Capote's opening paragraph; the latter cointains his closing sentence. Both are extraordinary, especially for their time, in capturing the mood and poetry of a place in the middle of a true-life story of a horrific mass murder.

As is certainly well known, IN COLD BLOOD is Truman Capote's magazine-article-turned full-length-docu-novel about the murders of four members of the Clutter family in their Holcomb, Kansas, farmhouse in November 1959. The two killers, Dick Hickock and Perry Smith, were ultimately caught, tried, sentenced, and executed, factual matters that are still commonly known today thanks to two recent movies about Capote's life and his...

United States on Sep 27, 2009