The Burden of Proof | Social Concerns
While The Burden of Proof maintains the interest in law demonstrated in Turow's two earlier works, the novel's primary emphasis is on the troubled relationships within the Stern family and the quest of Sandy Stern for self-definition following the mysterious suicide of his wife Clara after thirty one years of marriage. During the course of the novel, Stern must come to grips with the "imponderable duties darkly rooted in the hard soil of [his] own sense of filial and professional obligation." Stern must also learn to venture out of the neatly ordered world he had created for...
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