Presumed Innocent (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Scott Turow
- First Published: 1987
- Type of Work: Novel
- Genres: Long fiction, Mystery and detective literature
- Subjects: United States or Americans, Crime or criminals, Murder or homicide, Midwest, Trials, Elections, Lawyers, Innocence
- Locales: Kindle County, IL (fictive)
Presumed Innocent, Turow's first published novel, was an astonishing critical and popular success. In it, he drew upon his own experiences as a prosecutor in the U.S. Attorney's Chicago office to draw a detailed and realistic portrait of the world inhabited by his hero, Rusty Sabich, a chief deputy prosecutor in a fictional Midwestern city. The particularity of this world, especially the rendition of the murder trial that is central to the book, accounts in large part for its appeal.
As the novel opens, Sabich's colleague, Carolyn Polhemus, has just been murdered,...
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