In Cold Blood is a long reading and disturbing, frightening and unforgettable experience.
ruthless, as the pen Capote.
" The village of Holcomb is on the high wheat plains of western Kansas, a desolate area in the rest of the state is defined as" over there ". A hundred miles east of the Colorado border, the landscape, with its hard blue skies and the air clear and dry, has a more Far West than from the Middle West. The local accent has sharp resonances of the prairie, a nasal cattlemen, and men, many of them, lead cowboy tight pants, wide-brimmed hat and boots with high heels and sharp edges. The land is flat and extended the horizons frighteningly, horses, cattle herds, a group of white solos that rise gracefully as Greek temples are visible long before a traveler reaches them. "
