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This story is the account of a savage and senseless murder of a family. When writing this book, the author, Truman Capote, separated crime reporting from serious literature. As he relives the 1959 murder of a Kansas farm family and the investigation that led to ....

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.... Capote was never the same after. He spent six years of his life on this project, and it was hard work. While imprisoned, Perry and Dick considered him a true friend and wanted his help to get a pardon. Capote felt torn by his affections for the two and by knowing of the murders they had committed. Capote did not begin the book with the murder scene. Instead, he gave the reader a view of the Clutters as people, not just as victims. There is a chance for the reader to get to know and like the Clutters before they are murdered. And he could have given the description of the murders at the point they appeared, but he waited to give those details ....