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The story of a lawyer's battle to win compensation from two of America's largest industrial giants. He fought on behalf of 21 families whose lives were wrecked by illness and death due to the alleged poisoning of their town well. This case became renowned in American legal history.
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" Whether in truth or fiction, I have never read a more compelling chronicle of litigation." --John Grisham
" A page-turner. Rich and vivid. . . eventful and gripping." --The New York Times
" Once you start A Civil Action, you probably will not be able to put it down." --Washington Post Book World
"Whether in truth or fiction, I have never read a more compelling chronicle of litigation." --John Grisham "A page-turner. Rich and vivid. . . eventful and gripping." --The New York Times "Once you start A Civil Action, you probably will not be able to put it down." --Washington Post Book World
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" A page-turner. Rich and vivid. . . eventful and gripping." --The New York Times
" Once you start A Civil Action, you probably will not be able to put it down." --Washington Post Book World
"Whether in truth or fiction, I have never read a more compelling chronicle of litigation." --John Grisham "A page-turner. Rich and vivid. . . eventful and gripping." --The New York Times "Once you start A Civil Action, you probably will not be able to put it down." --Washington Post Book World
Jonathan Harr is the author of the national bestseller A Civil Action, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award for Nonfiction and The Lost Painting, a New York Times bestseller. He is a former staff writer at the New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine. He lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College.
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- PublisherCentury
- Publication date1996
- ISBN 10 0712676627
- ISBN 13 9780712676625
- BindingHardcover
- Edition number1
- Number of pages512
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