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Published by Island Books
Publication date: July 1992
Dimensions (in inches): 1.26 x 6.91 x 4.18
ISBN: 0440211727
Synopsis:
A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
Synopsis:
A Southern town is shocked when a 10-year-old black girl is raped by two white men--until the girl's father takes the law into his own hands.
Synopsis:
A white criminal lawyer in a small southern town is appointed to a case that has gained national attention--defending an Afro-American father who was forced to take the law into his own hands after his ten-year-old daughter's brutal murder. The Warner Bros. major motion picture due out this summer stars Sandra Bullock, Samuel L. Jackson, and Matthew McConaughey.
From the Publisher :
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...
"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.