Classic Book Discussion discusses "In Cold Blood" by Truman Capote In-Person
Join us for a discussion of a classic title: Truman Capote's In Cold Blood. Book copies are available across from the first-floor circulation desk for a month-long checkout. The book is also available through OverDrive as an ebook (click here to access) or as an audiobook (click here to access).
This discussion will meet in person. Registration required and new members are always welcome!
Book description: Truman Capote’s masterpiece created a sensation when it was first published, serially, in The New Yorker in 1965. The intensively researched, atmospheric narrative of the lives of the Clutter family of Holcomb, Kansas, and of the two men, Richard Eugene Hickock and Perry Edward Smith, who brutally killed them on the night of November 15, 1959, is the seminal work of the “new journalism.” Perry Smith is one of the great dark characters of American literature, full of contradictory emotions. “I thought he was a very nice gentleman,” he says of Herb Clutter. “Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat.” Told in chapters that alternate between the Clutter household and the approach of Smith and Hickock in their black Chevrolet, then between the investigation of the case and the killers’ flight, Capote’s account is so detailed that the reader comes to feel almost like a participant in the events.
- Date:
- Thursday, January 27, 2022 Show more dates
- Time:
- 3:00PM - 4:00PM
- Time Zone:
- Eastern Time - US & Canada (change)
- Location:
- Room #113
- Audience:
- Adult
- Categories:
- Book Discussion