The Last Juror

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  • Author : John Grisham
  • Binding : Hardcover
  • EAN : 9781844131594
  • Edition : First Edition, First Impression
  • ISBN : 1844131599
  • Label : Century
  • Languages : Original Language: English, Published: English
  • Manufacturer : Century
  • Number Of Pages : 357
  • Package Dimensions : 1.42 inches (Height) x 9.29 inches (Length) x 1.32 pounds (Weight) x 6.38 inches (Width)
  • Product Group : Book
  • Publication Date : 2004-02-02
  • Publisher : Century
  • Release Date : 2004-02-01
  • SKU : 1002413769
  • Studio : Century

Like many of John Grisham's better books, The Last Juror is at its best when evoking the past--Mississippi in the early 1970s--and less effective when constructing the bait-and-switch plotting with which he establishes a pointed argument about the law. When Danny Padgitt, part of a family of bootleggers who are effectively a large criminal conspiracy, is convicted of rape and murder, the jury cannot agree on the death penalty--and life sentences in this time and place are liable to be as little as nine years. Padgitt threatened the jury and when, once he is out, the jurors who heard his case start being executed, conclusions are there to be jumped to... Grisham is arguing that justice has to be seen to be done, rather than specifically for the death penalty or even life-means-life sentencing. Though his case is loaded, it is never entirely sentimentalised partly because these events are seen through the eyes of one of his most engaging narrators--a young Northern newspaper editor out to make a name and a fortune for himself, but also committed alike to the truth and a saintly African-American matriarch who serves on the Padgitt jury. This is a deeply populist book, but never a stupid one. --Roz Kaveney

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