Description
DU MONDE ENTIER
Truman Capote
De sang-froid
In Cold Blood
Published by Gallimard, Paris in 1959
First French Edition
Soft Binding
421 Pages
20.5 cm x 14 cm
In Cold Blood is a non-fiction novel that details the 1959 murders of four members of the Clutter family in the small farming community of Holcomb, Kansas. Capote’s novel was unconventional for its time. New Journalism, as a genre and style of writing, developed during the time in which In Cold Blood was written and Capote became a pioneer in showing how it can be used effectively to create a unique non-fiction story. New Journalism is a style of writing by which the author writes the non-fiction novel or story while it is developing in real life. This is exactly what Capote did as he followed the court trials and interviewed those close to the Clutter family to create this story while it was unfolding in the real world. As a result, he simultaneously researched and wrote the story we now know as In Cold Blood.