Book Review: ‘In Cold Blood’ by Truman Capote…

Book Review: ‘In Cold Blood’ by Truman Capote

My esteemed Facebook-friend, Professor Fawzan Shaltout, brought this book to our attention in a post. I had heard of Capote, of ‘Breakfast at Tiffany’s’, and even of ‘In Cold Blood’ itself before, but had never read any of Capote’s works. Now, trusting my friend’s judgment in all matters literary and artistic, I promptly downloaded the book.

‘In Cold Blood’ is a a crime thriller about actual events that took place in Kansas back in the Eisenhower years. And a thriller it indeed is – I almost literally could not put the tablet down until I had turned the last page.

Somehow the book brought to mind two other unrelated works – ‘The Satanic Verses’ by Salman Rushdie, and ‘Master and Margarita’ by Boris Pasternak. The commonality lies in the fact, that each one of these books starts with a few dozen pages of solid, sterling, prose, then devolves after that into hundreds of pages of plain, newspaper-grade writing. You can almost feel the publisher prodding the writer: “Write some more! I need more pages … !”

But the book does offer an insight into the minds of those who commit the most cruel acts without reason or discernible motives. The thoughtful reader will draw the right conclusions about the pervasiveness of senseless violence as a result of the promiscuous availability of weapons in America.

The book’s cover, shown here, cleverly portrays the environment of the events – the endless, feature-less, plains of western Kansas covered by the proverbial “big sky”.

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