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    Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences: Based on the Book by Truman Capote
    Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences: Based on the Book by Truman Capote
    Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences: Based on the Book by Truman Capote
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    Summary and Analysis of In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences: Based on the Book by Truman Capote

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    So much to read, so little time? This brief overview of In Cold Blood tells you what you need to know—before or after you read Truman Capote’s book.

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    About Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood:
     
    A masterpiece of true crime and literary nonfiction, Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood is the story of a 1959 multiple murder in rural Kansas. Combining journalistic research with masterful storytelling, Capote reconstructs the events surrounding the killing of the Clutter family and the crime’s aftermath—from the last day of the Clutters’ lives to the day their murderers are executed.
     
    Gripping, chilling, and suspenseful, In Cold Blood is a pioneering work of nonfiction and a highly acclaimed modern American classic.
     
    The summary and analysis in this ebook are intended to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherOpen Road Integrated Media
    Release dateJan 10, 2017
    ISBN9781504043823
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      Summary and Analysis of

      In Cold Blood

      Based on the Book by Truman Capote

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      The summary and analysis in this ebook are meant to complement your reading experience and bring you closer to a great work of nonfiction. This ebook is not intended as a substitute for the work that it summarizes and analyzes, and it is not authorized, approved, licensed, or endorsed by the work’s author or publisher. Worth Books makes no representations or warranties with respect to the accuracy or completeness of the contents of this ebook.

      Contents

      Context

      Overview

      Summary

      Timeline

      Cast of Characters

      Direct Quotes and Analysis

      Trivia

      What’s That Word?

      Critical Response

      About Truman Capote

      For Your Information

      Bibliography

      Copyright

      Context

      With In Cold Blood: A True Account of a Multiple Murder and Its Consequences, Truman Capote created what he called a serious new art form: the nonfiction novel. In 1959, when Capote first started thinking about In Cold Blood, he was already a brilliant fixture of the New York literary scene, author of celebrated short stories, essays, and novels, including the bestselling novella Breakfast at Tiffany’s. But, according to Capote, he wished to explore journalism as a potential artistic medium by applying his novelistic gifts to a true story—that of a 1959 multiple murder in remote western Kansas, its ramifications, and the psychology of its perpetrators.

      By almost any measure, he succeeded: The book, originally published as a wildly popular four-part series in the New Yorker before Random House released it in book form 1966, was met with laudatory reviews and enormous commercial success. With In Cold Blood, Capote limned the dark, violent underbelly of mid-twentieth-century America, chilling and captivating readers with his eloquent

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