Description:
In Cold Blood - Truman Capote - 2006
By: Truman Capote
Narrated by: Scott Brick
Length: 14 hrs and 27 mins
Unabridged Audiobook
Categories: Biographies & Memoirs, True Crime
Release date: 01-03-06
Language: English
Publisher: Random House Audio
Format: mp3 64/48 stereo
On November 15, 1959, in the small town of Holcomb, Kansas, four members of the Clutter family were savagely murdered by blasts from a shotgun held a few inches from their faces. There was no apparent motive for the crime, and there were almost no clues.
As Truman Capote reconstructs the murder and the investigation that led to the capture, trial, and execution of the killers, he generates both mesmerizing suspense and astonishing empathy. In Cold Blood is a work that transcends its moment, yielding poignant insights into the nature of American violence.
©1965 Truman Capote (P)2006 Random House, Inc. Random House Audio, a division of Random House, Inc.
Critic Reviews
"If the Oscar-winning film Capote has brought this story's outline to a new audience, Scott Brick's outstanding narration should introduce a generation of listeners to the complete story. Capote's 1965 "nonfiction novel," built around the senseless murder of a Kansas family, is a marvelous blend of rigorous reporting and poetic license. His portrait of the two killers is sympathetic - the act was monstrous, but the men were not monsters - and the soft edges of Brick's voice convey this perfectly. Though the recording is more than 14 hours, Brick is just so easy to listen to. It's not so much what he does, but what he doesn't do: he attempts no Kansas accents, no melodramatic phrasing. He steps back and lets the story breathe, and in doing so, leaves the listener breathless." (AudioFile magazine)
"The resulting chronicle is a masterpiece, agonizing, terrible, possessed, proof that the times, so surfeited with disasters, are still capable of tragedy." (The New York Times Book Review)
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