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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel

The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel - Paperback

by Sharyn McCrumb
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Availability:In StockContributor:Sharyn McCrumbSeries:Ballad Novels #8Publish date:2011-06-07Pages:336
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312573621ISBN-10:312573626UPC:9780312573621Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.26 x 5.59 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCPJ0T4EW6

"Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight."--The New York Times Book Review

In 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in
a Virginia mountain community.

National journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era readers.
But local cub reporter Carl Jennings writes what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty.

The novel resonates with the present: an economic depression; a deadly Japanese earthquake; the rise of political fanatics; and a media culture turning news stories into soap operas for the diversion of the masses.

A literary tour de force, The Devil Amongst the Lawyers continues the Ballard saga by examining social issues that go well beyond the fate of one defendant. It is a testament to Sharyn McCrumb's lyrical and poetic writing about the mountain South.
Language:EnglishPublisher:St. Martin's GriffinISBN-13:9780312573621ISBN-10:312573626UPC:9780312573621Book Category:FictionBook Subcategory:Historical, Mystery & DetectiveBook Topic:HistoricalSize:8.26 x 5.59 x 0.89 inchesWeight:0.6415Product ID:SCPJ0T4EW6
Sharyn McCrumb is the author of The Ballad of Frankie Silver, She Walks These Hills, and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by The New York Times and the Los Angeles Times. She was named a "Virginia Woman of History" for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.
Publisher: St. Martin's Griffin

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