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Book review: In Cold Blood by Truman Capote

IN COLD BLOOD by Truman Capote. Penguin Modern Classics. My Book Club`s choice for the month had me re-read `In Cold Blood,` this tour de force account of a gruesome set of murders committed in 1959, in Holcomb, agrarian Kansas. The facts, for those who wouldn`t know, are as follows. Two drifters,  Smith and Hancock,…

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Book review: Fifth Avenue, 5 am by Sam Wasson

FIFTH AVENUE, 5 AM by Sam Wasson, (Harper Perennial Books) is a delightful peek at everything that went into the making of the iconic Breakfast at Tiffany`s, into the making of its director Blake Edwards as also its much acclaimed  heroine Audrey Hepburn, Henry Mancini who provided the score, and last but certainly not the…

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