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This handsomely produced volume documents the early precociousness and a later sense of weariness and dwindled powers before and after "In Cold Blood".
This sort of pomp and circumstance is thrilling as a child and a bit embarrassing as an adult, but maybe we never quite shake our earlier, atavistic awe, and our later sense of sophisticated, ironic detachment is built on unstable foundations.
To really comprehend "Portraits and Observations," its early, almost overheated precociousness and later sense of weariness and dwindled powers, you have to imagine a crater roughly at the center of it: "In Cold Blood," the 1966 book that was ostensibly not altered or elaborated at all and that was both the making of Capote, or of his reputation, and also his undoing.
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