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by Truman Capote
Capote's pioneering true-crime masterpiece reconstructs the 1959 murder of the Clutter family in rural Kansas and its aftermath. Blending journalistic rigor with novelistic technique, he explores the psychology of killers and the shattered innocence of small-town America. A haunting meditation on violence and its human cost.
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