Before The Firm and The Pelican Brief made him a superstar, John Grisham wrote this riveting story of retribution and justice -- at last it's available in a Doubleday hardcover edition. In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town 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...
From the Hardcover edition.
發表於2024-06-16
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There is nothing more true than that all the things of the world have a limit to their existence. As to the outrage aroused by Yao Jiaxin’s case, it died out inevitably at the moment of his execution. It sounds a little bit counter-intuitive, but people s...
評分其實這本小說更像是關於美國法製製度的生動寫照。很慶幸的是,在之前看瞭林達的《曆史深處的憂慮》,所以對美國的政治法律製度有點瞭解,不然看這本原版的英文估計十分睏難; 美國的律師行業十分發達,通過這部小說可以充分體現,隨隨便便一個普通人在生活的不同階段都可能需...
評分Hey, two month passed since I first started to read this novel. It is a interesting and worth reading novel, although it is not necessarily my cup of tea. This story is full of up and down, good and wrong. Racism and justice, as a window to understand the A...
評分此書乃John Grisham的處女作,看瞭他的很多作品後,還是最喜歡這本。 以下是我對本書的感慨: 本書很有哈伯·李的《殺死一隻知更鳥》的影子,這本1961年齣版的經典小說至今仍遭受各種人的口誅筆伐。想必本書受這本名著的影響頗深。 先提一下John Grisham,美國著名庭審罪案...
評分Can't campare with the great novel <To Kill A Mocking Bird>. We must admit that, the coloured men are vulnerabe group among the whole country in America. But that doesn't mean they have the right to be acquitted when facing the law. Law is not about emotion...
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評分米國人還真是喜歡法律fiction...
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評分the story is simple,but you can see these people like they are standing in front of you.you sink in this story
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A Time to Kill 2024 pdf epub mobi 電子書 下載