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A Time to Kill: A Novel
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The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, 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.
Outline 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
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Item Specifications...
Pages 672
Dimensions: Length: 7.48" Width: 4.17" Height: 1.65"
Weight: 0.79 lbs.
Binding Softcover
Release Date Jun 23, 2009
Publisher Dell
ISBN 0440245915
EAN 9780440245919
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Availability 42 units.
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Reviews - What do our customers think?
 | Very good condition and quick service Jan 30, 2010 |
| I was amazed at how quickly I got my book. The book itself is in excellent condition and is welcome addition to my library. Thanx! | | |  | Great story!! Jan 3, 2010 |
I read this book years ago but I am just now starting to review online.
This is a wonderful book as many other reviewers have stated. One thing I really enjoyed about this book is how you can relate to someone hurting your child and how you yourself might react violently if given similar circumstances.
Excellent read! | | | | A great story! Sep 13, 2009 |
| This is one of my favorites from Grisham. I thought I'd read all of his works, but this one slipped by until it came out in paperback. His very first novel... interestingly, he became a published author BEFORE this one ever came to press. Compelling and gripping! | | | | Great Page-Turner and Thriller May 13, 2009 |
This is a good page-turner about the trial of a black man who kills his 10 year old
daughter's abductors and rapists. The book takes place in Mississippi and deals
with racism, chauvinism, legal pomposity, corruption, alcoholism and sex. It has
all the elements that make for fun and semi-mindless yet mesmerizing reading. | | | | Restored my faith in Grisham Apr 11, 2009 |
| Having read most of Grishams work and seen some of the movies as well I came to this book quite late and as many of the other reviewers have commented, I didn't realise this was his first. In some ways I am pleased to have come to this late as I had felt that he had lost his way a litle over the years and this book is simply very strong and compelling. Covering the tough subject that it does, and tackling some hard and harsh storylines it was a pageturner from start to finish and despite some ocmments that the detail was a little deep, that's what you get from Grisham. Its restored my faith in Grishams work and I'll be back to buying his new releases again. | | | Write your own review about A Time to Kill: A Novel
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