A review by katadamz
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

challenging dark sad tense medium-paced
Coming out of this novel, I respect Truman Capote as a storyteller and master of the English language even more than I did before. However, he did lose any credibility as a journalist or as someone with reasonable taste in men (
allegedly, he was in love with the murderer Perry Smith
). 

I am glad I finally finished the novel. My initial impression trying to read it over a decade ago was that I would happily read a book about small town American life written by Capote, but that the brutality of these murders was hard to stomach. I stand by that assessment, especially as it crawled to the conclusion, with Capote's focus narrowing onto
Leavenworth's death row
to an almost disturbing focus. The prose though, is beautiful and sparse, in a beautiful mid-20th century style. 
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