In Cold Blood (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)

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In Cold Blood was created as a work of deliberate literary experiment. Having written extensive journalistic coverage in his account of an opera company's tour of the Soviet Union (The Muses Are Heard) and in various travel writing, Capote desired to combine the reportorial techniques of journalism—the gathering of detailed factual material by observation and interviewing—with the narrative and dramatic scene devices of fiction. The grisly, senseless murders of a Kansas farm family (Herbert W. Clutter, his wife, and two children) on November 15, 1959, in Holcomb,...

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