In Cold Blood by Truman Capote [BOOK CLUB FIRST EDITION / 1965]

In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

BOOK CLUB FIRST EDITION [1965] RANDOM HOUSE

Hardcover with dust jacket in excellent condition.  Dust jacket identical to the first edition. 

Some mild wear to edges of DJ otherwise in great shape.  Book itself reads good as new.  Faint name written on inside cover. 

On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.

As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. At the center of his study are the amoral young killers Perry Smith and Dick Hickcock, who, vividly drawn by Capote, are shown to be reprehensible yet entirely and frighteningly human. In Cold Blood is a seminal work of modern prose, a remarkable synthesis of journalistic skill and powerfully evocative narrative. - Bookshop Apocalypse