Sycamore Row
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| Rating | : | 4.55 (649 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0385366477 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 16 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2015-06-10 |
| Language | : | English |
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Grisham is Back!! Carollyn50 I have always loved John Grisham's books. I can remember when I was introduced to his writing when I read A Time To Kill. I read ALL of the time - I inhale books. I have been disappointed in the last few Grisham books. In fact, I was quite irritated to read his baseball ones. I felt he had abandoned his best writing : lawyer, courtrooms, small Southern towns. Well, I just finished Sycamore Row. Oh, my! I. "Grisham's story-telling at its best. A blend of comedy, drama, suspense and gut-wrenching angst." according to ILuvReading. This is a sequel to one of Grisham's best, "A Time to Kill." Not necessarily a prerequisite - this books stands just fine on its own. picking up a few years later, lawyer Jake Brigance and his family still haven't recovered fully from the side-affects of the Hailey trial in the previous book. Once again we have a suspenseful plot with the same theme of whether racism and greed will overwhelm the outcome . Oh yeah it's that good! Jason Frost The beginning of 'A Time to Kill' opens with one of the cruelest act that could ever be committed on a fellow human being. That scene will forever be seared in the minds of anyone who has read it.The ending of 'Sycamore Row' will evoke that exact same emotion.I digress but let me quickly throw this in since I'll get this question five thousand times a day until Christmas. "Is this book really a sequel to
He lives near Charlottesville, Virgina. JOHN GRISHAM is the author of a collection of stories, a work of nonfiction, three sports novels, four kids' books, and many legal thrillers. . His work has been translated into 42 languages
Praise for the novels of John Grisham "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got in the United States these days." —The New York Times Book Review "John Grisham is exceptionally good at what he does—indeed, right now in this country, nobody does it better." —Jonathan Yardley, The Washington Post "Grisham is a marvelous storyteller who works readers the way a good trial lawyer works a jury." —Philadelphia Inquirer "John Grisham owns the legal thriller." —The Denver Post "John Grisham is not just popular, he is one of the most popular novelists of our time. He is a craftsman and he writes good stories, engaging characters, and clever plots." —Seattle Times "A legal literary legend." —USA Today
Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy man dying of lung cancer. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. He trusts no one. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and Jake into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.