Personal Injuries | Characters
Robert Feaver, universally known as Robbie, is the most interesting and complex character in the novel and clearly Turow's main interest as a psychological type adapted to a legal subspecialty. Robbie is an almost stereotypical (and almost literal) ambulance chaser, a shameless self-promoter who has taught himself to weep on cue in emergency rooms over the injustices dealt to prospective clients. He shades the truth as a matter of practice and is a frustrated thespian whose approach is Method acting, training he puts to good use in attracting clients and winning in court. He has a long...
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