Innocent
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.67 (600 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 1600249213 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 504 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2013-06-02 |
| Language | : | English |
DESCRIPTION:
The sequel to the genre-defining, landmark bestseller Presumed Innocent, INNOCENT continues the story of Rusty Sabich and Tommy Molto who are, once again, twenty years later, pitted against each other in a riveting psychological match after the mysterious death of Rusty's wife.
"A GREAT read!" according to Maggie Spence. How did I miss this one? I'm sorry to be so late to the party but I just read Innocent and I devoured it in two days. I loved Presumed Innocent, the book and the movie, but I was always wondering what happened after. Now I know! I'm not about to drop spoilers here but I will say that Turow answered some of my questions about the family . Turow Found Guilty of Betrayal by his Discriminating Readers My take on this book's origin: this was never Turow's book. He didn't own it or take responsibility for it. The publisher invented it, paid off Turow and kept hounding him until he delivered. When they demanded another chapter, he'd hammer it out like an overdue term paper in high school.Turow knows in his heart he betrayed us. After wr. Readers, Beware: You might prefer not to know how Rusty, etc., have deteriorated. Unfortunately, "Innocent" looks more like a writing excercise than a real novel, with its horribly complex structure, but some of the individual sections do show Scott Turow's wonderful talent. His courtroom scenes are still splendid, except when they are spoiled by sentimentality about the perpetually adolescent Nat. Tommy Molto's new
(May)Copyright © Reed Business Information, a division of Reed Elsevier Inc. In 2008, 22 years after the events of the earlier book, former lawyer Rusty Sabich, now a Kindle County, Ill., chief appellate judge, is again suspected of murdering a woman close to him. From Publishers Weekly Starred Review. Mesmerizing prose and intricate plotting lift Turow's superlative legal thriller, his best novel since his bestselling debut, Presumed Innocent, to which this is a sequel. Once again, Turow displays an uncanny ability for making the passions and contradictions of his main characters accessible and understandable. His wife, Barbara, has died in her bed of what appear to be natural causes, yet Rusty comes under scrutiny from his old nemesis, acting prosecuting attorney Tommy Molto, who unsuccessfully prosecuted him for killing his mistress decades earlier. Rusty's candidacy for a hi