Author
Truman Capote
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In Cold Blood (Vintage International)
by Truman Capote
Capote reconstructs the 1959 slaughter of a Kansas farm family and the two drifters who did it, in prose so controlled it changed nonfiction forever. The book that invented the true-crime narrative.