Title: A Time to Kill Pdf A Novel
Author: John Grisham
Published Date: 2009
Page: 660
"Grisham's pleasure in relating the Byzantine complexities of Clanton (Mississippi) politics is contagious and he tells a good story...An enjoyable book."—Library Journal "Grisham excels!"—Dallas Times Herald “Grisham is an absolute master.”—Washington Post “Grisham enraptures us.”—Houston Chronicle John Grisham is the author of twenty-five novels, including, most recently, The Racketeer; one work of nonfiction; a collection of stories; and a series for young readers. The recipient of the Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, he is also the chairman of the board of directors of the Mississippi Innocence Project at the University of Mississippi School of Law. He lives in Virginia and Mississippi.
The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town of Clanton in Ford County, Mississippi, 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.
A Page Turning Thriller! Imagine if you will, you have a 10 year old daughter. She might be white or black, or quite literally any race for that matter. In any event, two young men of a different race than he, tie share spread eagle to a tree and proceed to rape and beat her within an inch of her life. What would you do as the parent of the young child? Would you wait for the legal system to run its course and mete out appropriate punishment, or would your first instinct be to take justice into your own hands? Suppose you lived in a part of the country where the system was biased almost entirely against you, how would you as a parent respond? This is the premise of John Grisham's first novel, A Time To Kill. The book is a page turning thriller that studies this question while giving an in depth look insight as to how the legal profession works behind the scenes. We visit hope and we visit despair knowing that vigilante justice is not allowed in our society while our hearts cry out for justice to be extracted to the fullest. The novel keeps the reader hanging on until the very final pages and is well worth reading in its entirety because it not only looks at seething racial hatred in a fictional time ans place, it brings attention to the reality of hatred that exists in present day America. This is the second Grisham novel I have read and I can say he is on the list of one of my favorites!EThis is one book i had to read Everyone has that one book they've meant to read but hadn't gotten to it. A Time To Kill was that book for me. After listening to John Grisham's podcasts, I decided to rip the book open and plow through. There was so much against Carl Lee that I was concerned Grisham had taken things too far but in the end I enjoyed the controversy and the only part I would change is a final scene for Row Ark. She deserves some kind of recognition. A wonderful novel and one that I recommend any thriller fan to read.Classic work, shocking language I was prompted to buy this when the sequel came out last year: I thought I better tackle the 1989 original first. The great strength of the book is how easy it is to read despite the legal subject matter: as the locations are described and the characters sketched out in flowing prose, you feel you're there and part of it. You can breathe in the small town atmosphere in which everybody knows everybody else and black and white people live separate lives and support their own. The language will take your breath away: the 'n' word is so liberally used by all parties that it's uncomfortable; I guess some of that might survive in small southern towns today but not to the extent portrayed in this era. There are some annoying features in Grisham's early writing: everybody is always "screaming" or "yelling"; and in the immediate aftermath of Carl Lee Hailey, a quiet, thoughtful family man, taking revenge with a rifle for the rape of his daughter, he is portrayed as cackling with cartoon-like laughter, something which is so far removed from his characterization as to be ridiculous. That, plus the intervention of Carl Lee's criminal friend from Memphis offering the services of his crooked lawyer, who came and went with no consequence to the story whatsoever. But once you get into the plot you'll be gripped and you'll be rooting for Carl Lee: will he get away with his act of revenge, or is that too good to be true for the time and place?
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