基本信息·出版社：SOS Free Stock Reprint edition ·页码：368 页 ·出版日期：1994年02月 ·ISBN：0679745580 ·条形码：9780679745587 ·装帧：平装 ...
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基本信息·出版社：SOS Free Stock; Reprint edition
·页码：368 页
·出版日期：1994年02月
·ISBN：0679745580
·条形码：9780679745587
·装帧：平装
·正文语种：英语
·丛书名：Vintage International
·外文书名：冷血杀手
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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.
In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
作者简介 Truman Capote was a native of New Orleans, where he was born on September 30, 1924. His first novel,
Other Voices, Other Rooms, was an international literary success when first published in 1948, and accorded the author a prominent place among the writers of America's postwar generation. He sustained this position subsequently with short-story collections (
A Tree of Night, among others), novels and novellas (
The Grass Harp and
Breakfast at Tiffany's), some of the best travel writing of our time (
Local Color), profiles and reportage that appeared originally in
The New Yorker (
The Duke in His Domain and
The Muses Are Heard), a true-crime masterpiece (
In Cold Blood), several short memiors about his childhood in the South (
A Christmas Memory, The Thanksgiving Visitor, and One Christmas), two plays (
The Grass Harp and
House of Flowers and two films (
Beat the devil and
The Innocents).
Mr. Capote twice won the O.Henry Memorial Short Story Prize and was a member of the National Institute of Arts and Letters. He died in August 1984, shortly before his sixtieth birthday.
From the Trade Paperback edition. --This text refers to the Hardcover edition. 媒体推荐 书评
Amazon.com "Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.
The New York Times Book Review, Conrad Knickerbocker The resulting chronicle is a masterpiece--agonizing, terrible, possessed, proof that the times, so surfeited with disasters, are still capable of tragedy.
--This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title. Review "A masterpiece . . . a spellbinding work." —
Life"A remarkable, tensely exciting, superbly written 'true account.' " —
The New York Times"The best documentary account of an American crime ever written. . . . The book chills the blood and exercises the intelligence . . . harrowing." —
The New York Review of Books
