In Cold Blood [Mass Market Paperback] AA

Description

1965 Third printing. Paperback cover has some significant wear along the sides, scuffs and bending. Spine has some larger reading creases and wear. Book has some slight bends. Pages are clean and the binding is secure.

This early printing of Truman Capote’s groundbreaking “non-fiction novel” In Cold Blood bears the scars of many engrossed readings over the decades. Published just a year after its initial release, this third printing allows collectors to own a piece of literary history at a reasonable price. Capote’s painstaking research and novelistic prose reinvented the true crime genre, creating a work of astonishing empathy and insight into the brutal 1959 Clutter family murders. Drawing from thousands of pages of notes, Capote constructed an atmospheric and suspenseful narrative that explored the psychologies of the killers and their victims’ community. This searing examination of violence and human nature shocked readers and inspired a new genre of immersive longform journalism. Despite its age, this copy preserves the unsettling power that led critics to dub In Cold Blood “one of the great books of the postwar period.”