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The pelican brief
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- ISBN: 9780307576170 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
- ISBN: 0307576175 (electronic bk. : Adobe Digital Editions)
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1 online resource (371 p.) - Publisher: New York : Dell, c1992.
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| Subject: | Judges -- Crimes against -- Fiction Women law students -- Fiction Washington (D.C.) -- Fiction Assassination -- Fiction Journalists -- Fiction Witnesses -- Fiction Louisiana -- Fiction |
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- Horn Book Guide Reviews : Horn Book Guide Reviews 2012 Spring
Alone after her mother's death, Sandinista reaches a breaking point under her teacher's cruelty. She ditches school, gets a job at a vintage clothing store, and comes to terms with her grief with the help of another lost soul, Bradley, recently rebuffed by his ex-boyfriend. Sharp narration, unique characters, and strong emotional resonance give the story staying power. - Kirkus Reviews : Kirkus Reviews 1992 January
Gripping legal suspenser by the author of last year's hallucinatory The Firm--and an even stronger performance than that still-current bestseller. Grisham also strikes gold with public awareness of the furor over the Supreme Court nomination of Judge Thomas. Where The Firm clamped into the reader's greed for the perks of a supersuccessful young lawyer in an almost fantasy law firm, Grisham's second is a tale that baits its own hooks with the lures of All the President's Men. That much of what happens here happens regularly in suspense novels (sudden stranglings and murders) in no way lessens the novel's intensity and feeling of freshness--a freshness that springs in both novels from Grisham's focus on top law students, cloistered brains who find themselves raw beginners in the real world but afloat on cash. Here, second-year law student at Tulane Darby Shaw sets out to solve the seemingly motiveless simultaneous murders of two largely liberal Supreme Court judges who were killed two hours apart on the same night. A lone assassin or a conspiracy? Clearly someone wants the conservative Republican president, a grandfatherly nerd mainly interested in his golf game, to pack the already conservative Court. Darby reviews hundreds of the Court's upcoming cases and sees only one that fulfills the breadth of evil needed to account for such desperate measures as double murder: a multibillion-dollar oil venture in Louisiana that will kill off the state's beloved but endangered brown pelican. Darby's brief on this ``fictional'' case finds its way to the White House, the FBI, and the CIA. Then Darby's lover, her constitutional-law professor, to whom she has shown the brief, is blown up in a car-bomb explosion meant also to have killed Darby. The story's vitality springs from Grisham's relentless enlivening of Darby's fears as she flees about the country in a closing web of killers while trying to help Washington Post reporter Gray Grantham get the goods on the baddies in a newsbreak bigger than Watergate. Must entertainment for legal folk. Should outsell The Firm. (Literary Guild Dual Selection for May) Copyright 1999 Kirkus Reviews - Publishers Weekly Reviews : PW Reviews 1993 February #4
In this tale of the aftermath of the assassinations of two Supreme Court justices, Grisham delivers a suspenseful plot at a breakneck pace, although his characters are stereotypes. The hardcover was on the PW bestseller list 48 weeks and the mass market was No. 1 last week. (Mar.) Copyright 1993 Cahners Business Information.
