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カンザス州の片田舎で起きた一家4人惨殺事件。被害者は皆ロープで縛られ、至近距離から散弾銃で射殺されていた。このあまりにも惨い犯行に、著者は5年余りの歳月を費やして綿密な取材を遂行。そして犯人2名が絞首刑に処せられるまでを見届けた。捜査の手法、犯罪者の心理、死刑制度の是非、そして取材者のモラル―。様々な物議をかもした、衝撃のノンフィクション・ノヴェル。
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"Until one morning in mid-November of 1959, few Americans--in fact, few Kansans--had ever heard of Holcomb. Like the waters of the river, like the motorists on the highway, and like the yellow trains streaking down the Santa Fe tracks, drama, in the shape of exceptional happenings, had never stopped there." If all Truman Capote did was invent a new genre--journalism written with the language and structure of literature--this "nonfiction novel" about the brutal slaying of the Clutter family by two would-be robbers would be remembered as a trail-blazing experiment that has influenced countless writers. But Capote achieved more than that. He wrote a true masterpiece of creative nonfiction. The images of this tale continue to resonate in our minds: 16-year-old Nancy Clutter teaching a friend how to bake a cherry pie, Dick Hickock's black '49 Chevrolet sedan, Perry Smith's Gibson guitar and his dreams of gold in a tropical paradise--the blood on the walls and the final "thud-snap" of the rope-broken necks.
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