In Cold Blood, Truman Capote anthology Finalist for the Los Angeles

Finalist for the Los Angeles Times Book Prize • Finalist for the National Book Critics Circle John Leonard Award • Shortlisted for The Center for Fiction First Novel Prize • The New York Times Book Review Editors’ Choice • Emma Cline—One of Granta’s Best of Young American Novelists

funny early novel is a work of mercurial mood shifts

and visiting his wife's grave

very cold enclosed space—bound

he must find a strength greater than all the events that surround him

In Cold Blood, Truman Capote anthology Finalist for the Los AngelesOn the night of 15 November 1959 ex cons Dick Hickock and Perry Smith broke into the wealthy Cutter familys home in Holcomb, Kansas. Unable to find the safe stuffed with money theyd been told about, they tied up and then killed the four family members before going on the run. Six weeks later they were caught in Las Vegas. They were tried, convicted and executed by hanging six years later. Truman Capote read about the murders in the New York Times and