Book # 000008 Publisher Random House Place New York Year 1965 Book Condition Very Good Jacket Condition Good Binding Pictorial Cover
Price: $20.00
Description First Edition. This is an exceptionally clean, fresh and nice first printing, with second impression dust jacket. An increasingly uncommon First British Edition in collector's condition. Blurbs on back of dust jacket from British literary critics. Unclipped. In 1959, Capote set about creating a new literary genre -- the non-fiction novel. IN COLD BLOOD (1966), the book that most consider his masterpiece, is the story of the 1959 murder of the four members of a Kansas farming family, the Clutters. Capote left his jet-set friends and went to Kansas to delve into the small-town life and record the process by which they coped with this loss. During his stay, the two murderers were caught, and Capote began an involved interview with both. For six years, he became enmeshed in the lives of both the killers and the townspeople, taking thousands of pages of notes. Of IN COLD BLOOD, Capote said, "This book was an important event for me. While writing it, I realized I just might have found a solution to what had always been my greatest creative quandary. I wanted to produce a journalistic novel, something on a large scale that would have the credibility of fact, the immediacy of film, the depth and freedom of prose, and the precision of poetry." IN COLD BLOOD sold out instantly, and became one of the most talked about books of its time. It is hailed universally as a masterpiece, a high point of 20th century writing. Bookseller Inventory #000392
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