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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Hey, two month passed since I first started to read this novel. It is a interesting and worth reading novel, although it is not necessarily my cup of tea. This story is full of up and down, good and wrong. Racism and justice, as a window to understand the A...
评分Last March, when the court in Xi'an started to hear Yao Jiaxin’s murder case, the national conversation was dominated by one question: Why waste taxpayers' money to give a filthy rich and socially privileged little punk a trial? Isn’t it a no-brainer th...
评分中文版的没看过，英文原著看了不下五遍。 很有哈伯·李的《杀死一只知更鸟》的影子，这本1961年出版的经典小说至今仍遭受各种人的口诛笔伐。 先提一下John Grisham，他曾是一位极富正义感的律师，建筑工人的儿子，现在则是一位极富正义感的作家。他作品中的人物始终都是社会...
评分Then the time moved on to last April. When the judge was still deliberating Yao’s murder case at the end of his first trial, the angry question took on a new appearance: “Why the hell does it take such a long time to find a filthy rich and socially privi...
评分This afternoon, I went to Zhenhong’s graduate school attending the lecture on The Theory of Financial Crisis by Eric Maskin. At Q&A, I asked him whether economists shall be at least partly responsible for the financial crisis because they failed to make t...
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评分the story is simple,but you can see these people like they are standing in front of you.you sink in this story
评分the story is simple,but you can see these people like they are standing in front of you.you sink in this story
评分the story is simple,but you can see these people like they are standing in front of you.you sink in this story
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