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McCrumb, Sharyn The Devil Amongst the Lawyers US HCDJ 1st NF
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- ISBN
- 9780312558161
- Book Title
- Devil Amongst the Lawyers
- Book Series
- Ballad Novels Ser.
- Item Length
- 9.6 in
- Publisher
- St. Martin's Press
- Publication Year
- 2010
- Format
- Hardcover
- Language
- English
- Item Height
- 1.2 in
- Genre
- Fiction
- Topic
- Legal, Historical
- Item Width
- 6.4 in
- Item Weight
- 3.5 Oz
- Number of Pages
- 336 Pages
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In 1935, when Erma Morton, a beautiful young woman with a teaching degree, is charged with the murder of her father in a remote Virginia mountain community, the case becomes a cause celèbre for the national press. Eager for a case to replace the Lindbergh trial in the public's imagination, the journalists descend on the mountain county intent on infusing their stories with quaint local color: horse-drawn buggies, rundown shacks, children in threadbare clothes. They need tales of rural poverty to give their Depression-era readers people whom they can feel superior to. The untruth of these cultural stereotypes did not deter the big-city reporters, but a local journalist, Carl Jennings, freshout of college and covering his first major story, reports what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty.This journey to a distant time and place summons up ghosts from the reporters' pasts: Henry Jernigan's sojourn in Japan that ended in tragedy, Shade Baker's hardscrabble childhood on the Iowa prairie, and Rose Hanelon's brittle sophistication, a shield for her hopeless love affair. While they spin their manufactured tales of squalor, Carl tries to discover the truth in the Morton trial with the help of his young cousin Nora, who has the Sight. But who will believe a local cub reporter whose stories contradict the nation's star journalists? For the reader, the novel resonates with the present: an economic depression, a deadly flu epidemic, a world contending with the rise of political fanatics, and a media culture determined to turn news stories into soap operas for the diversion of the masses.A stunning return to the lands, ballads, and characters upon which she made her name, The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is a testament to Sharyn McCrumb's lyrical and evocative writing.
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Publisher
St. Martin's Press
ISBN-10
0312558163
ISBN-13
9780312558161
eBay Product ID (ePID)
80089962
Product Key Features
Book Title
Devil Amongst the Lawyers
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
Legal, Historical
Publication Year
2010
Book Series
Ballad Novels Ser.
Genre
Fiction
Number of Pages
336 Pages
Dimensions
Item Length
9.6 in
Item Height
1.2 in
Item Width
6.4 in
Item Weight
3.5 Oz
Additional Product Features
Intended Audience
Trade
Lc Classification Number
Ps3563.C3527d48 2010
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Praise for The Devil Amongst the Lawyers : "The story begins with a train ride, a magic carpet that carries us back to the year 1935 and into the heart of a famous murder trial. As we head for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we get to know the characters, those journalists and photographers and sensation-seekers who always turn up for a good spectacle. "Sharyn McCrumb re-creates this time and place with such precision, the reader forgets that seventy-five years have passed since that faraway event in that isolated place where the outer world clashes with superstition and folklore. This is storytelling as those Celtic bards meant it to be: lyrical, haunting, and truly unforgettable." --Cathie Pelletier, author of The Funeral Makers and Running the Bulls "Wow! Sharyn McCrumb is not just a writer---in fact, she's a conjurer, a genius, a wordsmith, an entertainer, a wit, a scholar, a wise woman, and a storyteller of the first rank. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is flat-out brilliant and transcendent, a book that gets everything exactly right. Simply put, novels don't come any better than this." --Martin Clark, author of The Legal Limit and The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living " The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is a superb novel that, once started, is so well written and so expertly researched that readers will find it impossible to put down. It is also a scathing indictment of how Appalachia has been, and continues to be, stereotyped by a supposedly objective media. Bravo!" --Ron Rash, author of Serena More Praise for Sharyn McCrumb: "There are few writers today who are able to blend past and present, tradition and law, legends and headlines in a wholly credible fashion-- Tony Hillerman springs inevitably to mind. Sharyn McCrumb is another; her widely acclaimed Ballad Series is one of the finest being written today." --Bookpage "McCrumb provides fresh evidence that there is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either." --San Diego Union-Tribune "Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic...She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight." --The New York Times Book Review, Praise for The Devil Amongst the Lawyers : "The story begins with a train ride, a magic carpet that carries us back to the year 1935 and into the heart of a famous murder trial. As we head for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we get to know the characters, those journalists and photographers and sensation-seekers who always turn up for a good spectacle. "Sharyn McCrumb re-creates this time and place with such precision, the reader forgets that seventy-five years have passed since that faraway event in that isolated place where the outer world clashes with superstition and folklore. This is storytelling as those Celtic bards meant it to be: lyrical, haunting, and truly unforgettable." --Cathie Pelletier, author of The Funeral Makers and Running the Bulls "Wow! Sharyn McCrumb is not just a writer---in fact, she's a conjurer, a genius, a wordsmith, an entertainer, a wit, a scholar, a wise woman, and a storyteller of the first rank. The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is flat-out brilliant and transcendent, a book that gets everything exactly right. Simply put, novels don't come any better than this." --Martin Clark, author of The Legal Limit and The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living " The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is a superb novel that, once started, is so well written and so expertly researched that readers will find it impossible to put down. It is also a scathing indictment of how Appalachia has been, and continues to be, stereotyped by a supposedly objective media. Bravo!" --Ron Rash, author of Serena More Praise for Sharyn McCrumb: "There are few writers today who are able to blend past and present, tradition and law, legends and headlines in a wholly credible fashion-- Tony Hillerman springs inevitably to mind. Sharyn McCrumb is another; her widely acclaimed Ballad Series is one of the finest being written today." --Bookpage "McCrumb provides fresh evidence that there is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either." --San Diego Union-Tribune "Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic…She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight." --The New York Times Book Review, Praise for The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: 'The story begins with a train ride, a magic carpet that carries us back to the year 1935 and into the heart of a famous murder trial. 'As we head for the Blue Ridge Mountains of Virginia, we get to know the characters, those journalists and photographers and sensation-seekers who always turn up for a good spectacle.' Sharyn McCrumb re-creates this time and place with such precision, the reader forgets that seventy-five years have passed since that faraway event in that isolated place where the outer world clashes with superstition and folklore.'This is storytelling as those Celtic bards meant it to be: lyrical, haunting, and truly unforgettable.' --Cathie Pelletier, author of The Funeral Makers and Running the Bulls 'Wow!' Sharyn McCrumb is not just a writer---in fact, she's a conjurer, a genius, a wordsmith, an entertainer, a wit, a scholar, a wise woman, and a storyteller of the first rank.The Devil Amongst the Lawyersis flat-out brilliant and transcendent, a book that gets everything exactly right.'Simply put, novels don't come any better than this.'--Martin Clark, author of The Legal Limit and The Many Aspects of Mobile Home Living 'The Devil Amongst the Lawyers is a superb novel that, once started, is so well written and so expertly researched that readers will find it impossible to put down. It is also a scathing indictment of how Appalachia has been, and continues to be, stereotyped by a supposedly objective media. Bravo!&' --Ron Rash, author of Serena More Praise 'for Sharyn McCrumb: 'There are few writers today who are able to 'blend past and present, tradition and law, legends and headlines in a wholly credible fashion-- Tony Hillerman springs 'inevitably to mind.'Sharyn McCrumb is another; her widely acclaimed Ballad Series is one of the finest being written today.'--Bookpage 'McCrumb provides fresh evidence that there is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either.' --San Diego Union-Tribune 'Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic' She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight.' --The New York Times Book Review, 'There are few writers today who are able to blend past and present, tradition and law, legends and headlines in a wholly credible fashion-- Tony Hillerman springs inevitably to mind. Sharyn McCrumb is another; her widely acclaimed Ballad Series is one of the finest being written today.' Bookpage 'McCrumb provides fresh evidence that there is no one quite like her among present-day writers. No one better, either.'-San Diego Union-Tribune 'Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic' She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight.' -The New York Times Book Review
Copyright Date
2010
Lccn
2009-045768
Dewey Decimal
813/.54
Dewey Edition
22
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