True Crime
In Cold Blood
Truman Capote
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Capote spent years reporting a single senseless quadruple murder, rendering it with a novelist's intimacy — including deep, unsettling closeness to one of the killers.
The founding work of the 'nonfiction novel,' reconstructing the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas and the lives, capture, trial, and execution of the two killers.
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