Capote went to extra, rather journalistic lengths to cover the story of a Kansas robbery and murder by two men in the late 1950’s. Although the crime itself is very ugly (a man, a woman, and two of their teenage children were victims), the book itself is well organized and elegantly written. One of the alleged killers, while behind bars and awaiting his fate, comes to speak candidly to Capote and therefore to the reader as well.

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