With his seven legal thrillers, all published since 1989, John Grisham has won a huge following of readers and set a standard few contributors to the genre can match. Because of the success of his novels, the legal thriller is the most popular genre...
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With his seven legal thrillers, all published since 1989, John Grisham has won a huge following of readers and set a standard few contributors to the genre can match. Because of the success of his novels, the legal thriller is the most popular genre in American fiction today. In this study, Pringle explains how Grisham's legal thriller evolved from the thriller tradition and borrowed from the heroic romance novel, gothic novel, crime novel, and detective fiction. She shows how his novels examine contemporary social and legal problems that do not have simple solutions-ecology, ethnic relations
Includes bibliographical references (p. [127]-133) and index
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Contents; Series Foreword; 1. The Life of John Grisham; 2. John Grisham and the Legal Thriller; 3. A Time to Kill (1989); 4. The Firm (1991); 5. The Pelican Brief (1992); 6. The Client (1993) ; 7. The Chamber (1994); 8. The Rainmaker (1995); 9. The Runaway Jury (1996); Bibliography; Index
