- Mississippi in fiction, Mystery, Cuentos jurídicos, Trials (Murder)--Mississippi-Fiction
John Grisham's bestselling backlist repackaged with fantastic new coversRay Atlee is a professor of law at the university of Virginia who is forty-three and newly single. He has a father, a very sick old man who lives alone in the ancestral home in Clanton, Mississippi; a beloved and powerful official who has towered over local law and politics for many years and is now a recluse.
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Classical in form, contemporary, grave and earnest.
- classical in formformally daring
- contemporarynostalgic
- gravecomic
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- unpretentiousprestige
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2002
- Pages
- 378
- Publisher
- Bruna, Random House Audio, Heyne Hörbuch, Mchn.
- Editions
- 55
- Language
- Dutch, Italian, Chinese, Portuguese
- ISBN
- 9783453215047
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“It came by mail, regular postage, the old-fashioned way since the Judge was almost eighty and distrusted modern devices.”
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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