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Sitharaam Jayakumar asked this question about In Cold Blood:
I read Truman Capote's 'In Cold Blood' two months back. It is only recently I have made a shift to non-fiction books. But for all practical purposes this book reads very much like fiction. I later googled and found that Bobby Rupp had never met Truman Capote. There is also a lot of criticism saying many facts have been misrepresented. So how much credence can be placed on the facts described in this book?
Greg Jai, like you, I've only recently made a shift to non-fiction, as well as to poetry. I still read fiction of course. But you're right to point out tha…mǰJai, like you, I've only recently made a shift to non-fiction, as well as to poetry. I still read fiction of course. But you're right to point out that "In Cold Blood" reads like the very best of thriller fiction. About Rupp never meeting Capote, well, in the book itself, Capote's voice is absent, so we never really know who he did and did not meet. I'd say that outside the dream sequences (which are intertwined beautifully with the story anyway) we can fully believe the who, what, when, where, how, and finally, perhaps, the why, although as far as the "why", no one may ever know the full truth. That's buried in the killer's brains.(less)
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