Author: John Grisham
Translator: Young-mok Jeong
Publisher: Sigongsa
770 pages.
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About This Book
This addictive tale of a young lawyer defending a black Vietnam war hero who
kills the white druggies who raped his child in tiny Clanton, Mississippi, is
John Grisham's first novel, and his favorite of his first six. He polished it
for three years and every detail shines like pebbles at the bottom of a swift,
sunlit stream. Grisham is a born legal storyteller and his dialogue is pitch
perfect. The plot turns with jeweled precision. Carl Lee Hailey gets an M-16
from the Chicago hoodlum he'd saved at Da Nang, wastes the rapists on the
courthouse steps, then turns to attorney Jake Brigance, who needs a conspicuous
win to boost his career. Folks want to give Carl Lee a second medal, but how can
they ignore premeditated execution? The town is split, revealing its social
structure. Blacks note that a white man shooting a black rapist would be
acquitted; the KKK starts a new Clanton chapter; the NAACP, the ambitious local
reverend, a snobby, Harvard-infested big local firm, and others try to
outmaneuver Jake and his brilliant, disbarred drunk of an ex-law partner. Jake
hits the books and the bottle himself. Crosses burn, people die, crowds chant
"Free Carl Lee!" and "Fry Carl Lee!" in the antiphony of America's classical
tragedy. Because he's lived in Oxford, Mississippi, Grisham gets compared to
Faulkner, but he's really got the lean style and fierce folk moralism of John
Steinbeck. --Tim Appelo
"Grisham's pleasure in relating the Byzantine complexities of Clanton
(Mississippi) politics is contagious and he tells a good story...An enjoyable
book." -- Library Journal.
"Grisham excels!" -- Dallas Times Herald.
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