Sycamore Row (Trunk Edition): Includes Exclusive Short Story - Hardcover

Grisham, John

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 1444785028 ISBN 13: 9781444785029

Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton, 2013

Synopsis

When A Time to Kill was published in 1989, the first - and, at the time, the only - print run was a mere 5,000 copies. John Grisham was so worried that they wouldn't find readers that he bought one thousand copies and sold them out of the trunk of his car. The rest is history.

To celebrate the publication of the incendiary new sequel to A Time to Kill, this very special edition of Sycamore Row is limited to only 5,000 copies. This Trunk Edition also contains an exclusive short story and a facsimile of the author's signature. Once they're gone... they're gone for good!

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Review

Praise for THE LITIGATORS:

'Grisham is brilliantly comic in a novel that is full of zest and brimming with memorable characters and rich storylines... The legal storylines are typically rich in social detail and instances of entertaining rascality... Away from his usual southern turf, Grisham is turned by Chicago into a more Dickensian writer, soft-hearted at times but predominantly funny... a brilliant comic set piece'

(The Sunday Times)

'The Litigators is up there with the best of Grisham's 25 novels... vintage Grisham. [His] style is direct and the result is a superbly plotted legal thriller' (Sunday Express)

'The Litigators is a thrilling romp through the murky world of lawsuits and shysters - rich and poor. Packed with [Grisham's] signature twists and turns, not to mention lots of double-dealing, be careful if you're reading The Litigators on the bus, you may just miss your stop' (Irish Independent)

a gripping read (Literary Review)

A solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south... The much-trailed conclusion is powerful. (Guardian)

As with earlier books by Grisham, what we are given here is the purest of unvarnished storytelling. Grisham has no truck with any studied elegance of style; he is more in touch with the strategies played out in the books of such predecessors as Erle Stanley Gardner and his dogged attorney, Perry Mason. But he knows that modern readers require a conflicted, multifaceted hero, and that he provides in Jake Brigance. It's good to see the troubled attorney back. (The Independent)

Sycamore Row bristles with all the old authority....It's good to see the troubled attorney back (Independent)

Grisham's decision to revive Brigance after almost 25 years and write what amounts to a historical novel is intriguing. He has produced a solid courtroom thriller with plenty to say about the long half-life of prejudice in the deep south. (Segregation, too: when Brigance invites Lang's 25-year-old daughter, Portia, home to dinner, he realises she is the first black person ever to have eaten in his house.) Coming so close on the heels of last year's The Racketeer, however, Sycamore Row can't help but disappoint. That novel, about a small-town lawyer jailed for accidentally laundering money, was a blast - as devious and unpredictable as its sociopathic antihero narrator. (Guardian)

Book Description

The incendiary sequel to John Grisham's A Time to Kill in a spectacular limited collector's edition!

Edition details

• Publisher: Hodder & Stoughton
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 1444785028
• ISBN 13: 9781444785029
• Binding: Hardcover
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 400