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A time to kill : a Jake Brigance novel / John Grisham.

Grisham, John. (Author).

Summary:

In this searing courtroom drama, best-selling author John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence...as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town...Clanton, Mississippi. The life of a ten-year-old girl is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young man. The mostly white town reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. Until her black father acquires an assault rifle -- and takes justice into his own outraged hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life...and then his own...

Record details

  • ISBN: 0385470819
  • ISBN: 9780385470810
  • ISBN: 0440245915
  • ISBN: 9780440245919
  • Publisher: New York : Doubleday : [1989, p2009]

Content descriptions

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Study Program Information Note:
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 23 17846.
Accelerated Reader AR UG 5.2 26 17846.
Subject: Ku Klux Klan (1915- ) > Fiction.
African American children.
African American interest.
African Americans.
Discrimination.
Prejudices.
Racism.
African American girls > Fiction.
Race discrimination > United States.
Social justice.
African Americans > Fiction.
African American families > Fiction.
Murder > Fiction.
Rape > Fiction.
Discrimination in capital punishment > United States.
Discrimination in criminal justice administration > United States.
Revenge > Fiction.
Trials (Murder) > Fiction.
Race discrimination.
African American girls > Crimes against > Fiction.
Vigilantes > Fiction.
Attorney and client > Fiction.
Small town life > Fiction.
Racism.
Sexual assault.
Mississippi > Fiction.
Southern States > Fiction.
Genre: Legal fiction (Literature)
Fiction.

Available copies

  • 107 of 112 copies available at NC Cardinal. (Show)
  • 1 of 1 copy available at Cleveland County Library System.

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  • 1 current hold with 112 total copies.
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