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Loading... A Time to Kill (1989)by John Grisham
Grisham's absolute best of his crime novels. It broke my heart and it also made me cheer. It doesn't get any better than this. (  ) shesinplainview | May 12, 2013 |  Grisham's first and still his best and most honest novel. ( ) FCAHS1954 | May 1, 2013 | A very good Southern legal mystery with racial issues. Very gripping. ( ) ArizonaFlame | Apr 16, 2013 | Again with the courtroom dramas. I thought the movie was really, really good though. (  ) JG_IntrovertedReader | Apr 3, 2013 | Although this book has plenty of suspense, I just found the overall premise one that I disagree with so strongly that I couldn't enjoy it. I don't think that Carl was right in shooting the 2 rapists, especially since they were in custody. (  ) leslie.98 | Apr 1, 2013 | no reviews | add a review Is contained inThe John Grisham Value Collection by John Grisham The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Testament / A Time To Kill by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The King of Torts by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Chamber by John Grisham The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill / The Firm by John Grisham The Firm / A Time to Kill / The Pelican Brief / The Client by John Grisham The Chamber / The Client / The Pelican Brief / A Time to Kill by John Grisham The Chamber / Skipping Christmas / A Time to Kill / The Pelican Brief / The Firm by John Grisham A Time to Kill / Skipping Christmas / The Last Juror / The Pelican Brief / The Chamber / The Rainmaker / The Street Lawyer / The Firm by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Firm / The Pelican Brief / The Client / The Chamber by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Partner / The Testament / The Rainmaker by John Grisham Collected John Grisham, Volume 1 by John Grisham The Chamber / A Time to Kill / The Rainmaker by John Grisham The Client / The Firm / The Rainmaker / The Pelican Brief / The Runaway Jury / A Time to Kill / The Chamber by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Bridges of Madison County / Icon / In the Shadow of a Rainbow by John Grisham A Time to Kill / The Firm / The Pelican Brief / The Client / The Chamber / The Rainmaker / The Runaway Jury / The Partner / The Street Lawyer / The Testament by John Grisham Has the adaptationIs abridged in
Amazon.com Amazon.com Review (ISBN 0385338600, Paperback)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 (retrieved from Amazon Thu, 14 Feb 2013 13:28:05 -0500) The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle--and takes justice into his own hands. |
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