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by John Grisham Donna
SYCAMORE ROW
John Grisham’s 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?
It begins with a boy. Theo Decker, a thirteen-year-old New Yorker, miraculously
survives an accident that kills his mother.
Abandoned by his father, Theo is taken in
by the family of a wealthy friend. Bewildered by his strange new home on Park Avenue, disturbed by schoolmates who don’t
know how to talk to him, and tormented
above all by his unbearable longing for
his mother, he clings to one thing that
reminds him of her: a small, mysteriously
captivating painting that ultimately draws
Theo into the underworld of art.
As an adult, Theo moves silkily between
the drawing rooms of the rich and the
dusty labyrinth of an antiques store where
he works. He is alienated and in love-and
at the center of a narrowing, ever more
dangerous circle.
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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