Many of his male characters would come to show this absence of a true father figure, and would spend much time and effort longing for this figure. .
Capote's most unique and recognized talent was his extraordinary ability to intertwine fact with fiction, fantasy with reality. He engages reality without being realistic, and mingles fact and fiction in a complicated and sometimes shocking way (Dictionary 83, 86). "Capote manages to liberate his images from the events which created them", thus adding his own intuition (Schorer 84). Capote can use facts and real events and in effect turn them into a comic novel. "He shifts from fact into fantasy, from the real into the surreal, from the daily into the dream, from the natural into the supernatural" (Levine 135). His fiction reads life non-fiction, and his non-fiction read like fiction. Capote is a pioneer with this type of style, very few writers before him had ventured into this formally forbidden land. His pioneered work, In Cold Blood, is described as being "A new literary form that trumpeted the advance publicists", that many will come to praise and denounce (French 929). He captivated readers and critics with his new genre, the "nonfiction novel". His nonfiction novel, of course, is In Cold Blood. This is a dark and eerie book about the ruthless murders of four family members in Holcomb, Kansas. Capote does years of research on the case and even psychoanalyzes the killers, and digs deep into their own lives. This is where Capote ventures fiction. He puts himself in the killer's position, and even goes into their thought processes and emotions, which there is only a minute chance he could have ever known about. Yet as one critic states, "It's unimportant whether it's true or not, since it is presented as fiction." (Whittington-Egan 85). .
In his nonfiction novel In Cold blood, Capote does a lot more than just state the facts of a quadruple homicide in Kansas.
"In Cold Blood" was a literary experiment for Truman Capote. ... For the most part, writers have thousands of notes on paper. ... Knowing that Capote compiled 8,000 pages of research, the book seems to be a very carefully edited selection of facts and descriptions. ... I feel that Truman Capote was an ass. ... I believe that Truman Capote made it big off four people's deaths and that he has no regrets about it. ...
The goal in this paper is to show how Bragg has developed his unique style and tone using voice, rhythm, and cohesion in his numerous magazine and newspaper articles, and in his six published books. ... His passion and his hardest work, he says, are to transfer oral tradition to paper without losing the voice of the people. Like Truman Capote and others, Rick writes non-fiction in a narrative style sometimes called New Journalism that employs a fictional method to tell a real story. ...