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The Laws of Our Fathers, published in 1996, is Scott Turow's fourth and longest novel, at 832 pages.. Plot. When last seen in Turow's The Burden of Proof, Sonia Klonsky was a prosecutor with the U. S. Attorney's office in Kindle County with a failing marriage, an infant daughter, and a single mastectomy.
- Scott Turow
- 1996
Oct 18, 1996 · Hardcover – October 18, 1996. A drive-by shooting of an aging white woman at a gang-plagued Kindle County housing project sets in motion Scott Turow's intensely absorbing novel, The Laws of our Fathers. With its riveting suspense and indelibly drawn characters, this novel shows why Turow is not only the master of the modern legal thriller but ...
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- Scott Turow
- Farrar, Straus and Giroux
Jan 1, 1996 · The Laws of Our Fathers is not up to the high standard set by Presumed Innocent. The writing is brisk. It is a difficult task to make an 817-page novel into a page-turner, but Turow accomplished that task here. However, The Laws of Our Fathers lacks some of the depth of Presumed Innocent. In Presumed Innocent, the action seems to unfold naturally.
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- Scott Turow
Sep 1, 1997 · The Laws of Our Fathers. Mass Market Paperback – September 1, 1997. In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual ...
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- Scott Turow
- Mass Market Paperback
Apr 5, 2011 · The Laws of Our Fathers by Scott Turow. Award icon Publishers Weekly Best Books of the Year, 1996 Regular Price $10.00 Regular Price $13.00 ...
May 22, 2014 · Scott Turow. Pan Macmillan, May 22, 2014 - Fiction - 400 pages. A gripping portrayal of judicial corruption, The Laws of our Fathers is Scott Turow's fourth Kindle County legal thriller. It was another drive-by shooting in one of Kindle County's most drug-plagued housing projects – but the victim was the ex-wife of a politician.
Jun 11, 2010 · Laws of Our Fathers is a rich, complex and ultimately profoundly moving tale that, like all Turow's work, is quarried from the mysteries of human character rather than simply from the sometimes too-easy drama of the courtroom. It begins in the gritty setting of an inner city slum and in the mind of a soul-dead black gangster.
