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Carolyn Works reviews In Cold Blood in a winter reading column, 1986

Also February 1986 Winter Reading column · Carolyn Works In Cold Blood review

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Date1986-02
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Summary

The February 1986 Beaver Beacon published Carolyn Works’s “Winter Reading” review of Truman Capote’s In Cold Blood and her reflections on its treatment of the Clutter family murders and the book’s effect on her.

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This is a personal reading column, not an independent account of the crime or a library circulation record.

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  1. Reviews Capote's 1965 book and reflects on its account of the Clutter family murders and the author's response to the book. It is a personal reading column, not an independent account of the crime or a library circulation record. The holding institution's portal restricts automated access; the archive holds a copy of this issue and can provide it on request.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · beaver_beacon · 1986-02_Beaver-Beacon
  2. The held fifteen-page February issue PDF is paired with the canonical OCR source and confirms the reading column.
    data1 · beaver-island-archive · scans · beaver_beacon · issues · 1986-02_Beaver-Beacon

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Beaver Island Archive, “Carolyn Works reviews In Cold Blood in a winter reading column, 1986”, https://beaverislandarchive.org/events/beaver-island-winter-reading-in-cold-blood-1986/, accessed [date], citing Carolyn Works, “In Cold Blood by Truman Capote, 1965,” Beaver Beacon, February 1986. (and 1 further source listed on the page).

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