Catalog / In Cold Blood
In Cold Blood
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Truman Capote
Capote reconstructs the murder of a Kansas family and the investigation that leads to the two men responsible. A documentary narrative about crime, justice, and violence.
- First publication
- Publisher
- Random House
- Original language
- English
- ISBN-10
- 0679745580
- ISBN-13
- 9780679745587
- ASIN
- 0679745580
Why was In Cold Blood challenged?
In Cold Blood by Truman Capote is in this catalog because a sourced record documents an at-risk action in United States in 2000. The book was banned and then restored at a Savannah high school after a complaint about sex, violence, and language.
The catalog records the scope as school. That is not a claim that the book is banned everywhere, or that a failed complaint has the same force as a prohibition. Open the sources under Bans and restrictions. Unsourced rumors are omitted.
Readers who search “why was In Cold Blood banned” should read the status label first. Banned, restricted, and at risk are defined on the methodology page and are not interchangeable.
Bans and restrictions
At risk · School
The book was banned and then restored at a Savannah high school after a complaint about sex, violence, and language.
A local ban later reversed, documented by the ALA.
- Source → Banned & Challenged Classics American Library Association
Other questions
- Is In Cold Blood banned?
- In this catalog the primary documented status is “at risk” in United States, 2000. That is not a worldwide ban. Scope and sources are listed below.
- Why was In Cold Blood challenged?
- The book was banned and then restored at a Savannah high school after a complaint about sex, violence, and language.
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