Sycamore Row (Hardcover) (ISBN-13: 9780385537131)

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - 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

A Time to Kill is one of the most popular novels of our time. Now we return to that famous courthouse in Clanton as Jake Brigance once again finds himself embroiled in a fiercely controversial trial-a trial that will expose old racial tensions and force Ford County to confront its tortured history.

Seth Hubbard is a wealthy 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 Jake 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 far 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?

In Sycamore Row, John Grisham returns to the setting and the compelling characters that first established him as America's favorite storyteller. Here, in his most assured and thrilling novel yet, is a powerful testament to the fact that Grisham remains the master of the legal thriller, nearly twenty-five years after the publication of A Time to Kill.

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Author: John Grisham
ISBN-10: 0385537131
ISBN-13: 9780385537131
Publisher: Doubleday Books
Language: English
Published: 10/22/2013
Pages: 464
Format: Hardcover
Weight: 1.60lbs
Size: 9.30h x 6.20w x 1.50d

Accelerated Reader:
Reading Level: 6.2
Point Value: 28
Interest Level: Upper Grade
Quiz #/Name: 163540 / Sycamore Row

Award: L.A. Times Book Prize - Finalist
Award: Pat Conroy Southern Book Prize - Finalist

Review Citation(s):
Library Journal Prepub Alert 05/15/2013 pg. 52
Kirkus Reviews Fall Preview 08/15/2013 pg. 4
Publishers Weekly 10/28/2013
People Weekly 11/18/2013 pg. 54
Entertainment Weekly 11/15/2013 pg. 85
New York Times Book Review 11/10/2013 pg. 14
Kirkus Reviews 11/15/2013
Library Journal 05/15/2013