A review by amandagstevens
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

4.0

Capote has an assured narrative voice, and it's undeniable he seeded a whole genre with this book, so four stars feels fair. But certainly not five, because his dogged claim that every quote in this book is verbatim from his memory...well, that's just arrogant nonsense. This is clearly a NOVEL based on the events of the Clutter murders, in which people are turned into characters and dialogue/thoughts are extrapolated all over the place. This is not nonfiction, and I'm not on board with calling anything a "nonfiction novel," so...four stars it is.