Sycamore Row, John Grisham
Sycamore Row, John Grisham
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Sycamore Row

Bestseller

Author: John Grisham

Narrator: Michael Beck

Unabridged: 20 hr 47 min

Format: Digital Audiobook Download

Published: 10/22/2013

Includes: Bonus Material Bonus Material Included

Synopsis

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension.

“Welcome back, Jake. . . . [Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham’s novels.”—USA Today

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and defense attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County’s most notorious citizens, just three years earlier.

The second will raises many more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row?

Look for all of John Grisham’s gripping Jake Brigance novels:
A Time to Kill
Sycamore Row
A Time for Mercy

About John Grisham

John Ray Grisham, Jr. was born in Jonesboro, Arkansas on February 8, 1955. Grisham graduated from Mississippi State University and later from the University of Mississippi School of Law in 1981. He was a practicing criminal attorney for over ten years and then served in the House of Representatives from 1984 to 1990. He published his first novel in 1989 after working on it for five years. ‘A Time to Kill’, his first novel, launched his new career and was later made into a major motion picture. His first bestseller, ‘The Firm’, released in 1991, sold over seven million copies and was made into a box office hit starring Tom Cruise two years later. Almost twenty years later in 2012, a TV series was launched and picks up the life of Mitch McDeere and his family ten years after the events of the novel.

John Grisham has had his novels translated into more than forty languages and has sold nearly 300 million copies worldwide. He is a winner of the prestigious Galaxy British Book Award and is one of only three authors (the other two being Tom Clancy and J.K. Rowling) to ever sell two million copies of a first published novel. Nine of his novels (including ‘The Firm and ‘A Time to Kill’ have been made into major motion pictures.

Reviews

AudiobooksNow review by Carla on 2013-11-25 03:07:50

Sycamore Row is all the things I like in a John Grisham book. . I wasnt sure what to expect after The Racketeer. That was just bad. It seemed like it had been hastily slapped together by a writer with a contractual obligation and no enthusiasm. I always think of Grisham novels, along with graphically outlining the current ills of this country, as being about the Romance of Money. Theres always this huge pile at stake and usually wire transfers to the Cayman Islandswho will get ithow will they spend itwill they accept it at all. By the end we **** well know where every penny went and why. But its fun and you carehis writing puts you right in the room, hoping against hope the hero is going to pull it all off somehow. And by the end you hope all his salty old sidekicks manage to pull themselves together too. Just once though Id like to see one of his saintly elderly black women be the bad guy. Just to be fair.

Quotes

“Powerful . . . immensely readable . . . the best of his books.”—The Washington Post

“One of [Grisham’s] finest . . . Sycamore Row is a true literary event.”—The New York Times Book Review


Praise for the novels of John Grisham
 
“John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we’ve got in the United States these days.”—The New York Times Book Review
 
“In all of Grisham’s best books . . . the reader gets good company, a vigorous runaround and . . . a bit of a legal education.”—Janet Maslin, The New York Times
 
“Grisham’s books are smart, imaginative, and funny, populated by complex, interesting people.”—The Washington Post
 
“The law, by its nature, creates drama, and a new Grisham promises us an inside look at the dirty machineries of process and power, with plenty of entertainment.”—Los Angeles Times
 
“John Grisham owns the legal thriller.” —The Denver Post

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