Thursday, May 10, 2007

Modern Classics: In Cold Blood



In Cold Blood (1966) by Truman Capote is the masterful reconstrunction of a horrid mass murder that took place in Kansas in late 1959 when ex-convicts Perry Smith and Dick Hickock killed a whole family in their rural home.

Capote offeres us a study in depth of the crime, its effect on all those involved up to the criminals' execution. Exceptional.

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