A Time to Kill

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出版者:Dell Publishing Company
作者:John Grisham
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页数:528
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出版时间:2003-5-31
价格:GBP 4.65
装帧:Mass Market Paperback
isbn号码:9780440211723
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Book Description

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...

Amazon.com

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

Amazon.com Audiobook Review

With a chillingly calm, even delivery, Michael Beck, a regular Grisham reader (The Rainmaker, The Runaway Jury), turns the narrative of this disturbing tale of racism, ignorance, and brutality into an almost visceral experience. "Cobb strung a length of quarter inch ski rope over a limb ... he grabbed her and put the noose around her head." The story is frighteningly believable and expertly crafted around a horrible crime and the tragic consequences that follow. At times, Beck's character voices can be distracting, but his efforts are generally applied to good effect, adding another level of tension to this already suspenseful look at a small Mississippi town's struggle for justice. (Running time: 17 hours, 12 cassettes)

                               --George Laney

From Library Journal

In this lively novel, Grisham explores the uneasy relationship of blacks and whites in the rural South. His treatment is balanced and humane, if not particularly profound, slighting neither blacks nor whites. Life becomes complicated in the backwoods town of Clanton, Mississippi, when a black worker is brought to trial for the murder of the two whites who raped and tortured his young daughter. Everyone gets involved, from Klan to NAACP. Grisham's pleasure in relating the byzantine complexities of Clanton politics is contagious, and he tells a good story. There are touches of humor in the dialogue; the characters are salty and down-to-earth. An enjoyable book, which displays a respect for Mississippi ways and for the contrary people who live there. Recommended.

                          - David Keymer, SUNY Coll. of Technology, Utica

Book Dimension

length: (cm)17.9                 width:(cm)10.5

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其实这本小说更像是关于美国法制制度的生动写照。很庆幸的是,在之前看了林达的《历史深处的忧虑》,所以对美国的政治法律制度有点了解,不然看这本原版的英文估计十分困难; 美国的律师行业十分发达,通过这部小说可以充分体现,随随便便一个普通人在生活的不同阶段都可能需...  

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此书乃John Grisham的处女作,看了他的很多作品后,还是最喜欢这本。 以下是我对本书的感慨: 本书很有哈伯·李的《杀死一只知更鸟》的影子,这本1961年出版的经典小说至今仍遭受各种人的口诛笔伐。想必本书受这本名著的影响颇深。 先提一下John Grisham,美国著名庭审罪案...  

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司法系統是否只是為利益既得者而設?是否每個人不論身份地位得到的對待都是公正的?這本書沒有言盡,但讓人沉思

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很有意思的一部犯罪&法律小说。对美国的审判制度有了一个最基本的了解。中间穿插的种族矛盾、暗箱操作等等也颇有意思,让你感觉,居然还能这么玩?

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說種俗

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挺吸引人的一本legal thriller。尤其喜欢里面对jury和教会捐款的暗箱操作的描写,不管是白人还是黑人,都有正义及黑暗的一面。 不过整个看下来,还是觉得男主Jake对Carl Lee的辩护更多是出于作为一个律师的私心(渴望大案要案以及随之而来的名声)而不是希望带给黑人族群一个deserved justice。这在很大程度上也许也更接近实际。

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关于各种美国社会常见冲突不细述,法律问题其实很老生常谈,本人也非常讨厌同态复仇,但谁能说最后的结果不正义呢?但这本书最重要的是这个point—人并不是因为伟大善良正确而成为万物之灵,人类社会之所以有如此瑰丽的过去将来,是因为人性的复杂。

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