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Available
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Publication
Warner Vision Books
Pages
817
Description
Fiction. Mystery. HTML: In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction..
Series
Collection
Language
Original language
English
Physical description
817 p.; 6.75 inches
ISBN
0446604402 / 9780446604406
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LibraryThing member mramos
The complex story is told in two alternating tracks, with the first set in a lightly fictionalized late 60's Berkeley, and the second set in Turow's present-day Kindle County. The main character, Sonny, finds herself the judge of a murder trial involving people she has known for twenty years, and
This book is very long and complex. You will need patiences for a story to get to the point. But, Turow writes extremely well and ranges widely, taking on gang culture, judicial corruption, and the ever present political manipulations. And he always has very interesting character at the center of his tale. I would suggest this not be the first Turow book you read.
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must decide it without the assistance of a jury. This book is very long and complex. You will need patiences for a story to get to the point. But, Turow writes extremely well and ranges widely, taking on gang culture, judicial corruption, and the ever present political manipulations. And he always has very interesting character at the center of his tale. I would suggest this not be the first Turow book you read.
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LibraryThing member blockbuster1994
The Law of Our Fathers is an ambitious work, taking on several meaty, hot button issues from the last 40 years: war protesting, the Holocaust, political activism, recreational drug use, gang violence, poverty, grief and oh lets see, unhappy childhood/unresolved parental conflict/middle age divorce.
Scott Turow writes such total insight and witt, its hard to believe that a writer can create characters with that total depth and rich history. This is a lengthy novel that takes time to journey through given its sheer size. The story itself unfolds as two parallel universes; flipping between the past and the present, with the breaks coming at times of suspense, so there is motivation to read on. However, the story can be boggy. And the characters themselves? I can't say I really connected with them. But I do appreciate a well written story with a complex plot.
This is a typical work of Turow, just not my favorite.
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Scott Turow writes such total insight and witt, its hard to believe that a writer can create characters with that total depth and rich history. This is a lengthy novel that takes time to journey through given its sheer size. The story itself unfolds as two parallel universes; flipping between the past and the present, with the breaks coming at times of suspense, so there is motivation to read on. However, the story can be boggy. And the characters themselves? I can't say I really connected with them. But I do appreciate a well written story with a complex plot.
This is a typical work of Turow, just not my favorite.
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LibraryThing member Schmerguls
5642. The Laws of the Fathers, by Scott Turow (read 7 Aug 2019) This is the sixth book I've read by this author. I was so tremendously impressed and caught up by his book, One L, about his first year in law school (which I read 20 May 1982) that i have often succumbed to reading his books, though
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none has ever impressed me the way One L did. The Laws of the Fathers was published in 1996 and is fiction, telling of a woman judge who tries a murder case involving lawyers she has known since her youth and the trial is attended by a columnist who twenty years before the judge, then in her early twenties, cohabitated with. She has since married, had a child, and divorced the child's father. Seth, the columnist, also has married, had a son (who died) and a daughter. No character in the book pays any attention to the Sixth Commandment, and the author inserts a few episodes pornagraphic in nature--which adds nothing to the tenor of the book. The trial is fairly interesting as is the account of the characters in their youth when they were hot against the Vietnam War--Seth almost goes to Canada to escape the draft. The trial ends and the book goes downhill from there, with much agonizing by the characters which I was so bored by that I was dismayed by how much of the book still remained to be read. So, some of the book is of interest but much is not. Show Less
LibraryThing member camharlow
An intriguing story that reunites a group of university friends and acquaintances 25 years after their student days. The event that brings them together is a murder trial. The American street slang and abbreviations take a bit of getting used to, but do not detract from the story which is more than
It is also a story of love and the relationships between the group and gradually reveals the reasons for their differences over the years. In addition, it shows the love and concerns of parents for their children and the effects that these cause.
There is so much more to the book than the reason for the crime and its solution.
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a crime novel.It is also a story of love and the relationships between the group and gradually reveals the reasons for their differences over the years. In addition, it shows the love and concerns of parents for their children and the effects that these cause.
There is so much more to the book than the reason for the crime and its solution.
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LibraryThing member AliceAnna
A good, if not great, book. A nice look at the hippie-turned-boomer class. I found myself as intrigued by the exposition of the past as I was with the actual trial.
LibraryThing member baldhead
2nd book by this author I have read. First one was hard going but this one was way too wordy and I lost interest many times. Did not finish
LibraryThing member susandennis
Years ago I read one of Scott Turow's books - I have no clue which one - and it offended me in some way that I cannot now remember. Since I can't remember, I decided to forgive and give him another shot. Am I ever glad I did. The Laws of our Fathers follows a court case as it unfolds, but with
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flashbacks to the early 70's, explains how things go to where they are. The fascinating characters in the book are my age and lived the things I lived and the whole story - a nice, long, meaty story - was captivating. Show Less
LibraryThing member ritaer
lives tangled during sixties figure in trial of gangbanger in 90s
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FIC F Tur