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I recently became a fan of books of JG and have so far been happy with my decision. I read "The Brothers" and "The Client" back-to-back in three days! I started reading "A Time To Kill" tonight and I 'm having a problem. Why did he insist on using the racial epithet prohibited for African-Americans, so rampant in the book? I can understand that it might try to set the mood of the characters and the city, but the word seems to appear a little too often. Am I just being a too-sensitive West Coast hippie, or someone else share my concern? Also, nobody knows a way to communicate directly with him either e-mail or postal mail? Thank you.
It just faith. People in time and place (over the place that time, really) happen to not go hand in hand with political correctness to the most extensive we find more acceptable. I think his point is made, however, that when a rude comment is the common means of speech, lost most of its effects. It is those who normally use the "f" word in everyday language. (Seriously, you non-Americans, there are many groups sub-culture where it is not only accepted but expected.) Yes, n "word suggests a lack of respect. But after you know that the character, you know he will not stop using that word. Is the word that is its vocabulary, and now you know some thing about this character. The problem, I think, is that it is often a character you might want to want. And yet he lives in an environment where such speech is not great, nor the "f" word in gangsta style: not only accepted but expected. So, if using "African-American" once, his friends roll him for a week on this. Peer pressure can be a terrible thing.
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The Brethren $7.99 #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLERThey call themselves the Brethren: three disgraced former judges doing time in a Florida federal prison. One was sent up for tax evasion. Another, for skimming bingo profits. The third for a career-ending drunken joyride. Meeting daily in the prison law library, taking exercise walks in their boxer shorts, these judges-turned-felons can reminisce about old court cases, … |
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The Summons / The Brethren $28.54 The Summons Once Judge Atlee was a powerful figure in Clanton, Mississippi–a pillar of the community who towered over local law and politics for forty years. Now the judge is a shadow of his former self, a sick, lonely old man who has withdrawn to his sprawling ancestral home. Knowing the end is near, Judge Atlee has issued a summons for his two sons to return to Clanton to discuss his estate. T… |
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John Grisham $66 With his seven legal thrillers, all published since 1989, John Grisham has won a huge following of readers and set a standard few contributors to the genre can match. Because of the success of his novels, the legal thriller is the most popular genre in American fiction today. In this study, Pringle explains how Grisham’s legal thriller evolved from the thriller tradition and borrowed from the heroic romance novel, gothic novel, crime novel, and detective fiction. She shows how his novels examine contemporary social and legal problems that do not have simple solutionsecology, ethnic relations, capital punishment, corporate greed, and health insuranceand how he depicts both the legal system and lawyers in their best and worst lights. Following a biographical chapter that focuses on Grisham’s childhood in Arkansas, education, political career, and development as a writer, Pringle examines the legal thriller, its antecedents, and Grisham’s contribution to the genre. An individual chapter is devoted to analysis of each of his novels. Each chapter synopsizes the novel, discusses its reception by critics, and features sections on plot development, character development, social/historical context and issues, and an alternative critical perspective from which to approach the novel, such as psychoanalytic theory or feminist criticism. The work includes a complete bibliography of Grisham’s work, critical sources, and list of reviews of all of his novels. Because of Grisham’s popularity with adults and young adults and the contemporary issues he raises, this study is valuable to students, book discussion group participants, and other interested readers, and is an essential purchase for school and public libraries. |
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John Grisham Value Collection $26.21 This book is in New – Excellent condition |
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Readings on John Grisham $56.14 This book is in Used condition |
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Revisiting John Grisham $65 This book is in New – Excellent condition |