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The craft is evident and the research is extraordinarily done - Capote apparently went full method to write this, delving amongst all of the townspeople and getting to know the killers well. It's more of a long report of a crime than a novel. One good thing about the reportage is that Capote has a great gift for little throwaway analyses of the workings of a small town, or killers' motivations. He writes with great clarity, as if summarizing what is already known about a case, but essentially, t
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