Description: John Grisham, A Time to Kill. Doubleday, November 1993. New Trade Hardcover Edition. ISBN 0-385-47081-9. Full number line on copyright page. Book contains the publisher's note on the inside dust flap that the book was "originally published in a small print run in 1989, and for years unavailable in hardcover. Doubleday is proud to publish a new trade hardcover edition of this gripping courtroom drama." The book is in excellent condition, appears unread. Book boards very good, spine tight, corners very good. Text block very good. Dust jacket very good, but price is clipped. Gold lettering on dust jacket is very good. 1193 inside rear dust jacket flap. Mustard yellow endpapers have some scratching/tape removal. Previous owner's label inside front cover. Pictures included are of the actual book being offered for sale. As the novel opens, the life of a ten-year-old Tonya Hailey is shattered by two drunken and remorseless young men. The mostly white town of Clanton, MS, reacts with shock and horror at the inhuman crime. That is, until her father acquires an assault rifle and takes matters into his hands. For ten days, as burning crosses and the crack of sniper fire spread through the streets of Clanton, the nation sits spellbound as young defense attorney Jake Brigance struggles to save his client's life, and then his own. In this powerful courtroom drama of retribution and justice, John Grisham probes the savage depths of racial violence, as he delivers a compelling tale of uncertain justice in a small southern town. Grisham has described A Time to Kill as "very autobiographical" in that the novel's "young attorney is basically me" and the drama is based on a case he witnessed. In 1984 Grisham witnessed the harrowing testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim at the DeSoto County courthouse in Hernando, Mississippi. According to Grisham's official website, Grisham used his spare time to begin his first novel, which "explored what would have happened if the girl's father had murdered her assailants." He spent three years on A Time to Kill and finished it in 1987. When Doubleday subsequently published the best-seller The Firm to much acclaim, Wynwood Publishing, who had initially published A Time to Kill, released a trade paperback of the title, which also became a bestseller. Doubleday re-issued the hardcover edition in 1993. A beautiful copy of Grisham's first book, perfect for collectors of Grisham's works!
Price: 100 USD
Location: Aberdeen, Mississippi
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Book Title: A Time to Kill
Book Series: Jake Brigance
Original Language: English
Item Length: 9.5 in
Vintage: No
Personalize: No
Format: Hardcover
Language: English
Item Height: 1.75 in
Personalized: No
Features: Dust Jacket, First Edition
Topic: Books, Suspense, Thriller, Mississippi Writers, Southern Writers, Jake Brigance, John Grisham, Race Relations, Courtroom Drama
Item Width: 6.5 in
Signed: No
Ex Libris: No
Narrative Type: Fiction
Publisher: Doubleday
Intended Audience: Young Adults, Adults
Inscribed: No
Edition: First Edition
Publication Year: 1993
Type: Novel
Literary Movement: Contemporary
Era: 1990s
Author: John Grisham
Genre: Crime & Thriller, Drama, Mystery, Novel, Courtroom Drama
Country/Region of Manufacture: United States
Item Weight: 30 oz.
Number of Pages: 487 pages
