Considered the first "non-fiction novel," "In Cold Blood" documents the mass murder of the Clutter family in 1965, the subsequent arrest the killers and the process of their trial.
The book catapulted Capote to super stardom, but detractors pointed out disrepancies with regards to fact, or rather criticised fictitious elaboration of contemporary events (that what is published as non-fiction is nothing of the sort) and the moral problem of being so close to those involved, whilst being a novelist writing a novel, rather than a journalist communicating bare facts.
In it's favour, "In Cold Blood" is an astounding piece of writing, evocative, influential and cooly detatched. It's hybrid nature is fascinating, creating a loop where real people are works of fiction, and vice versa.
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