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Ford County by John Grisham (2009, Hardcover/DJ)

Item specifics: ~ Author: John Grisham ~ Format: Hardcover ~ Publisher: Doubleday ISBN-10: 0385532458 ISBN-13: 9780385532457 ~ Subject: Short Stories ~ Publication Year: 2009 ~ Language: English ~ Condition: Read one time ~ very good condition ~

Synopsis Perhaps emboldened by the success of his initial endeavor into true crime (AN INNOCENT MAN), John Grisham continues to expand his literary repertoire with his first collection of short stories. Fittingly, the stories document the various interactions of citizens in the fictional locale of Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of several of Grisham's beloved legal thrillers, where disparities, both superficial (race) and significant (class), often overwhelm the more fundamental similarities between people.

Size: Length: 308 pages ~ Height: 9.0 in. ~ Width: 5.8 in. ~ Thickness: 1.2 in. ~ Weight: 16.8 oz.

Publisher's Note: The best-selling author returns to Ford County, Mississippi--the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill--in a surprising collection of stories.

Industry reviews: "Mr. Grisham took seven of his unused plot ideas and turned each of them into a sharp, lean tale free of subplots and padding....This book begins on a light note and ends with a teary one; in between it's full of tacit suspense that hinges on the bending, breaking and subversion of Mississippi law." (11/02/2009)

"[T]hese seven stories seem so artless that the artlessness turns into an art. They're terrifically charming, if only for this one thing: They start out at a beginning and march straight through to an end. They lack plot twists, literary surprises, authorial showing off....[Y]ou absolutely can't stop reading." (11/06/2009)

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