Personal Injuries (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: Scott Turow
- First Published: 1999
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1992-1993
- Setting: Kindle County, a fictionalized version of Turow’s Chicago
- Principal Characters: Robbie Feaver, Lorraine Feaver, George Mason, Morton Dinnerstein, Stan Sennett, Evon Miller, Judge Brendan Tuohey
- Genres: Long fiction
- Subjects: Chicago, Lawyers, Judges, Corruption, Organized crime, Government, 1990’s, Law enforcement, Bribery
- Locales: Chicago, IL, Kindle County, IL (fictive)
Of the tremendous spate of legal thrillers published in the wake of John Grisham’s blockbuster novel The Firm (1991), few can match—and perhaps none surpass—the writings of attorney Scott Turow for emotional depth and sheer literary quality. When Turow’s 1987 novel Presumed Innocent came on the scene, followed by The Burden of Proof in 1990, reviewers praising the two international best-sellers recognized that the author’s page-turning suspense format was in the service of a larger goal: writing about what William Faulkner once called “the problems of...
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