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A Time to Kill |
by: John Grisham
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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780385338608
ISBN: 0385338600
Label: Dell
Manufacturer: Dell
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 528
Publication Date: March 15, 2004
Publisher: Dell
Release Date: March 15, 2004
Studio: Dell
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- Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > Contemporary
- Books > Subjects > Literature & Fiction > General AAS
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- Books > Subjects > Mystery & Thrillers > Authors, A-Z > ( G ) > Grisham, John > Paperback
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Amazon.com Review:
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
Product Description:
Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands.
For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...
From the Hardcover edition.
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- Best book by John GrishamAn extremely well-written and thought provoking book that deals with racism, segregation, bigotry, southern culture, faith and much more. The first couple of pages are sickeningly brutal. At least i felt that way. And Grisham doesn't let you get over the initial shock.
I can't believe this was his first novel. I'd rate this his absolute best, although A Painted House and The Rainmaker come really close for me.
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- Best JG book by farIt's a little different than his other legal thrillers, and while it was his first book it either wasn't published or was re-released after The Firm. It is a little less slick, but has a lot more character development than his later books, as well as a lot more detail. More of a labor of love than just a successful formula, if you get my drift.
The story centers around the seemingly justifiable homicide in a small southern (Mississippi) town by a black father of the rapists of his daughter. ... Read More
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- A Fantastic Beginning to an Amazing CareerThis was my first Grisham read: I don't count the first two hundred pages of The Street Lawyer, since that simply doesn't compare to the power of A Time to Kill. He clearly blows the doors of legal fiction clean off-- for five hundred pages. The last twenty-eight, however...
Every character and situation is well-thought out and creates real tension: constant conflict between Brigance and Buckley, Noose, the Klan, and everyone else, it seems. Wilbanks is clearly the most fun, albeit a bit of ... Read More
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- Good Grisham bookI haven't liked Grisham's newer books or the ones he writes in partner with another author. I hadn't read his first book and was looking for some good old fashioned Grisham. Crime, suspense and justice. A Time to Kill delivers. The uncomfortable subject of race in the south is at the center of this story and Grisham doesn't shy away from it. His characters have to explore tough questions and pass judgment on themselves and others.
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- Terrible!!!!I never recieved the product, and when I wrote to complain they said that basically, it cost them more to ship it than they actually made, so they aren't going to do anything about it.
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