Truman Capote and the Legacy of in Cold Blood

by Ralph F. Voss

Book Overview

Ralph F. Voss was a high school junior in Plainville, Kansas in mid-November of 1959 when four members of the Herbert Clutter family were murdered in Holcomb, Kansas, by "four shotgun blasts that, all told, ended six human lives," an unimaginable horror in a quiet farm community during the Eisenhower years. No one in Kansas or elsewhere could then have foreseen the emergence of Capote's book-which has never gone out of print, has twice been...

• Format: Paperback
• Language: English
• ISBN: 0817358315
• ISBN13: 9780817358310
• Release Date: March 2015
• Publisher: University Alabama Press
• Length: 260 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.
• Dimensions: 0.5" x 5.9" x 9.0"