In cold blood : a true account of a multiple murder and its consequences, Capote, Truman
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The title means a murder is committed, without any hesitation or bad feeling.
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Truman Capote was born in New Orleans and is one of the Southern novelists who write in the tradition started by William Faulkner. Most of his novels take the South as their background and terror as their subject. He worked in the Hollywood film industry for some time. His books are sometimes regarded as signs of a widespread contemporary movement: a revolt against the aspirations of the novel to art and a turning on the part of the novelists themselves towards the mass audience. It implies a reaction against the ideals of Henry James; and Joseph Conrad about the novel as a work of art, which dominated the novel form throughout the first half of the twentieth century. With the immensely popular In Cold Blood (1966), Capote turned into a new path by producing what is some