Ford County Stories (Hardcover)
| Author: John Grisham |
$10 off $30 on Home, Health & Beauty, Sporting Goods, Bags, Entertainment, Apparel, Jewelry, Toys and Pet Supplies when you use V.me at checkout. Ends 5/26/2013.
List Price:
$24.00
(Save 37%)
Today
$15.02
+ $3.35 SHIPPING
EARN 5x (76) RAKUTEN SUPER POINTSWhat's this?
| Format: | Hardcover |
Click here for Kobo Edition (eBook). Available for $7.99! (What's this?)
Condition:
Brand New
In Stock:
Usually Ships within 24 hours
Very few left In Stock! Order soon -- product may sell out.
3 New and Used
from
$3.99
5x
Share
Product Details:
Format: Hardcover
Publisher: Random House Inc
ISBN-10: 0385532458
ISBN-13: 9780385532457
Sku: 211244911
Publish Date: 11/3/2009
Pages:
308
See more in Short Stories (single author)
By the time the news of Bailey's accident spread through the rural settlement of Box Hill there were several versions of how it happened. (from the first line)
| John Grisham returns to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his immensely popular first novel, A Time to Kill. This wholly surprising collection of stories reminds us once again why Grisham is America’s favorite storyteller. |
Annotation:
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.
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.
Author Bio
John Grisham
John Grisham woke up at 5:00 every morning for three years to complete his first novel, A TIME TO KILL. Working as a lawyer and a member of Mississippi's state legislature, Grisham published his debut thriller with a small and somewhat unknown publisher, receiving only local readership in his home state. He finally burst on to the national scene with his second novel, THE FIRM, a legal thriller that sold millions of copies and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for 47 weeks. Shortly afterward, Grisham moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he began working on a series of new legal thrillers, including THE PELICAN BRIEF and THE CLIENT, all of which became bestsellers and were subsequently made into successful films. Having graduated from the University of Mississippi in Oxford with a law degree in 1981, Grisham went on to base his popular thrillers on his experience as a specialist in criminal defense. His once-unknown debut, A TIME TO KILL, was made into a major motion picture in 1996.
Praise
"[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."
- Carolyn See
11/06/2009
"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."
- Janet Maslin
11/02/2009
"Grisham proves that he can write compelling short stories..."
- Justin Warshaw
05/07/2010
Book Format:
Related Products
