A Time to Kill (Large Print)
by John Grisham
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Author: John GrishamEdition: Hardcover
Audio: English (Original Language); English (Unknown); English (Published)
Format: Large Print
Published: 2004-10-05
ISBN: 0375433503
Number of pages: 784
Publisher: Random House
Book Reviews of A Time to Kill (Large Print)
Book Review: Best JG book by far
Summary: 5 Stars
It's a little different than his other legal thrillers, and while it was his first book it either wasn't published or was re-released after The Firm. It is a little less slick, but has a lot more character development than his later books, as well as a lot more detail. More of a labor of love than just a successful formula, if you get my drift.
The story centers around the seemingly justifiable homicide in a small southern (Mississippi) town by a black father of the rapists of his daughter. This all unfolds in about two pages, and the book never lets up much from there. When done as a film the story becomes kind of an unbelievable Hollywood circus, but in the book the process is developed in a deliberative process, and the Rube Goldberg quality of the plot maintains plausability and excitement.
Again, it is a little longer than most of his other books, and not so polished, but if you like strong and well-developed characters and especially if you already like JG, then it's hard to see how you would not love this book. Even if you are not a JG fan, give this one a try- it is really good, original southern writing.
Summary of A Time to Kill (Large Print)
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...
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
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