Hello, my fellow Friday 56ers!
I've decided to take a short break from reading ARCs and make room for a classic. With a snowstorm expected to begin tonight, I probably won’t have anything else to do but read anyway. So, why read a classic?
This week’s pick for Friday 56 is In Cold Blood by Truman Capote. Published in 1966, the book tells the true story of the 1959 murders of the Clutter family in Holcomb, Kansas, along with the subsequent capture and execution of the killers, Richard "Dick" Hickock and Perry Smith. The book was adapted into a feature film in 1967 and a television miniseries in 1996. I’ll be reading the Modern Library edition published in 2013, which I received as a Christmas gift from a friend.
Now, here’s a glimpse at page 56:
Dick handed him the bottle, the contents reduced by half. "Save the rest," Dick said. "We may need it."
— Capote, Thurman. In Cold Blood, Modern Library, 2013, p. 56.
Great book, great author, and truly tragic event. - thank you for posting
ReplyDeleteI read this book several years ago and was shocked to learn it was really one of the first of its form -- a nonfiction story told in a fiction-style of writing. Then this past year I read the book, Furious Hours, which is half a narrative nonfiction about a man who kept killing his wives and then it went on to talk about Harper Lee and how she tried to write up a book about the man and his murders using her research and the same techniques Capote did in this book, since she had helped him write In Cold Blood. But she never pulled it off. Perhaps she only worked well with a partner and by the time she was attempting to write it Capote was too famous and off on all his adventures so he wasn't available or she wasn't in the headspace to organize all the million of moving parts.
ReplyDeleteThis was excellent. I plan on doing a lot of reading this weekend too what with the 10-12 inches of snow on the way.
ReplyDeleteI haven't read this yet but hope to. It's icy and a little snowy here. We're expected to get more snow later today though.
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