Deliberate cruelty : Truman Capote, the millionaire's wife, and the murder of the century
(2022)
Nonfiction
Book
Call Numbers:
364.1523/MONTILLO,R
Availability
Details
PUBLISHED
New York : Atria Books, 2022
EDITION
First Atria Books hardcover edition
DESCRIPTION
307 pages : illustrations ; 24 cm
ISBN/ISSN
9781982153731, 1982153733, 9781982153731
LANGUAGE
English
NOTES
Describes how author Truman Capote became obsessed with the true crime story of a Manhattan socialite who shot her banking heir husband in 1955, and discusses how publication of his book led to her suicide and his own scandalous downfall