In Cold Blood (Cyclopedia of Literary Places)
At a glance:
- Author: Truman Capote
- First Published: 1966
- Type of Work: Novel
- Type of Plot: Detective and mystery
- Time of Work: 1959
- Genres: Nonfiction, New Journalism
- Subjects: 1950’s, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Moral conditions, Human behavior
- Locales: Kansas
Places Discussed
*Garden City. Seat of Kansas’s Finney County on the high wheat plains of Western Kansas. Here upright Herbert Clutter headed the building committee for the newly completed First Methodist Church. Capote reminds his reader that they are in “the ‘Bible Belt,’ that gospel-haunted strip of American territory in which a man must, if only for business reasons, take his religion with the straightest of faces.” This idyllic setting has caused many readers to believe Capote’s book is evoking the Christian story of the Fall in the Garden (City) of Eden, with...
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