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The Pelican Brief is a legal-suspense thriller by John Grisham, published in 1992 by Doubleday. It is his third novel after A Time to Kill and The Firm.
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 400
- Publisher
- Random House Audio, Chivers Audio Books, Zwarte Beertjes
- Editions
- 82
- Language
- Japanese, Dutch, Italian, tur
- ISBN
- 9780582816978
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“HE SEEMED INCAPABLE of creating such chaos, but much of what he saw below could be blamed on him.”
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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