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After being laid off from her teaching position, Mercer Mann is approached by a mysterious woman with a generous offer to go undercover and infiltrate bookstore owner Bruce Cable's life to learn his secrets.
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Classical in form, contemporary, cool and grave.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- cooloverwhelming
- gravecomic
- earnestironic
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2017
- Pages
- 336
- Publisher
- Bruna, Doubleday, Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
- Editions
- 16
- Language
- English, Russian, Dutch
- ISBN
- 9781473663725
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Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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