paperback; 384pp; published, 1980

ANNOTATION
The detached yet penetrating account of the savage and senseless murder of a family.

FROM THE PUBLISHER
With the publication of this book, Capote permanently ripped through the barrier separating crime reportage from serious literature. As he reconstructs the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, Capote generates suspense and empathy.

FROM THE CRITICS
Conrad Knickerbocker
There are two Truman Capotes. One is the artful charmer, prone to the gossamer and the exquisite, of the The Grass Harp and Holly Golightly. The other, darker and stronger, is the discoverer of death. He has traveled far from the misty, moss-hung, Southern-Gothic landscapes of youth. He now broods with the austerity of a Greek or an Elizabethan. -- Books of the Century; New York Times review, January 1966

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