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? asked in Arts & HumanitiesBooks & Authors · 8 years ago

Why is "In Cold Blood" considered a canon-worthy novel?

American literary canon

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  • Bekki
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    8 years ago
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    It was genre breaking, completely unique at the time. Capote wrote a fictionalized account of a true event. It had been done before but not with the success Capote had.

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