In Cold Blood

Product Description

The chilling true crime non-fiction novel that made Truman Capotes name, In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill & powerfully evocative narrative published in Penguin Modern Classics.

Controversial & compelling, In Cold Blood reconstructs the murder in 1959 of a Kansas farmer, his wife & both their children. Truman Capotes comprehensive study of the killings & subsequent investigation explores the circumstances surrounding this terrible crime & the effect it had on those involved. At the centre of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith & Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely & frighteningly human.

Truman Capote (1924-84) was born in New Orleans. He left school when he was fifteen & subsequently worked for The New Yorker, which provided his first
- & last
- regular job. He wrote both fiction & non-fiction
- short stories, novels & novellas, travel writing, profiles, reportage, memoirs, plays & films; his other works include In Cold Blood (1965), Music for Chameleons (1980) & Answered Prayers (1986), all of which are published in Penguin Modern Classics.