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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...
Amazon.com
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
Amazon.com Audiobook Review
With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly crafted around a horrible crime and the tragic consequences that follow. At times, Beck's character voices can be distracting, but his efforts are generally applied to good effect, adding another level of tension to this already suspenseful look at a small Mississippi town's struggle for justice. (Running time: 17 hours, 12 cassettes)
--George Laney
From Library Journal
In this lively novel, Grisham explores the uneasy relationship of blacks and whites in the rural South. His treatment is balanced and humane, if not particularly profound, slighting neither blacks nor whites. Life becomes complicated in the backwoods town of Clanton, Mississippi, when a black worker is brought to trial for the murder of the two whites who raped and tortured his young daughter. Everyone gets involved, from Klan to NAACP. Grisham's pleasure in relating the byzantine complexities of Clanton politics is contagious, and he tells a good story. There are touches of humor in the dialogue; the characters are salty and down-to-earth. An enjoyable book, which displays a respect for Mississippi ways and for the contrary people who live there. Recommended.
- David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica
Book Dimension
length: (cm)17.9 width:(cm)10.5
中文版的没看过,英文原著看了不下五遍。 很有哈伯·李的《杀死一只知更鸟》的影子,这本1961年出版的经典小说至今仍遭受各种人的口诛笔伐。 先提一下John Grisham,他曾是一位极富正义感的律师,建筑工人的儿子,现在则是一位极富正义感的作家。他作品中的人物始终都是社会...
评分此书乃John Grisham的处女作,看了他的很多作品后,还是最喜欢这本。 以下是我对本书的感慨: 本书很有哈伯·李的《杀死一只知更鸟》的影子,这本1961年出版的经典小说至今仍遭受各种人的口诛笔伐。想必本书受这本名著的影响颇深。 先提一下John Grisham,美国著名庭审罪案...
评分虽然是自动化本科毕业后又去糊弄出一个法律系的学士学位,但是一直没有对于法学有深入的研究。 想不到,居然是约翰.格里姆森将英美法系的审判程序如此生动的展现在我面前。 检方提出的控告是否起诉要经大陪审团裁定 取保候审的金额、审判地点的选择要通过法庭判定 陪审团人...
评分杀戮时刻是以律师为男一号,以一起报复杀人案的审理为主线,不厌其烦地讲述了美国刑事司法体系的运作程序,律师、检察官、法官之间的合作互动、勾心斗角、嬉笑怒骂,陪审团的遴选与案情评议,精神病鉴定专家的当庭表演,控辩双方的法庭辩论,可谓一幅面面俱到、惟妙惟肖的美国...
评分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...
作為好歹學過四年法律的我,看著一群人踐踏法律簡直咬牙切齒
评分司法系統是否只是為利益既得者而設?是否每個人不論身份地位得到的對待都是公正的?這本書沒有言盡,但讓人沉思
评分司法系統是否只是為利益既得者而設?是否每個人不論身份地位得到的對待都是公正的?這本書沒有言盡,但讓人沉思
评分听过。依稀觉得应该是看过电影的,但细节已经记不清了。听感来说还不错,有不少生词,但看惯了罪案及法律剧,囫囵吞枣的听明白还是可以的。与标题的感觉不同,并不是情节跌宕的动作小说,更像是对美国司法体系的展开介绍,从Grand Jury的preliminary hearing到Petit Jury的选取方式,以及法庭辩论和cross-examination,无一不做了细致的描写,而时代背景是黑人备受歧视的60年代美国南部,黑白族群的对立和冲突同样是最后庭审走向的重要影响因素。各个角色都比较丰满,也给了足够的细节来铺陈,有时候甚至有怎么又跑题了的感觉,对于结局,我其实觉得是与美国司法精神背道而驰的,虽然情感上也偏向这样结尾。
评分作為好歹學過四年法律的我,看著一群人踐踏法律簡直咬牙切齒
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