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In Cold Blood
"I didn't want to harm the man. I thought he was a very nice gentleman. Soft-spoken. I thought so right up to the moment I cut his throat." (p. 110) These are the words spoken by Perry Smith, one of the men who on November the 15th, 1959 killed the four members of the Clutter household. In Cold Blood, a nonfiction novel by Truman Capote tells just what happened on the days before and after the murder of t ....
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.... bogus checks and steal a car. They are finally caught and taken to federal prison where they undergo seven years before they are finally hung for murder.
It is not only with a sick sensation of horror but with simple, genuine human sympathy that we watch the senseless murder of the four Clutters. Depicted with even greater care and with an insight always controlled by the facts of their lives, by their confessions, and by the testimony of others who had known them, are the two loathsome ....
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