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The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School

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Newsweek calls him "an extraordinarily canny and empathetic observer." In bestseller after bestseller, Turow uses his background as a lawyer to create suspense fiction so authentic it reads with the hammering impact of fact. But before he became a worldwide sensation, Scott Turow wrote a book that is entirely true, the account of his own searing indoctrination into the field of law called ... The first year of law school is an intellectual and emotional ordeal so grueling that it ensures only the fittest survive. ... more

About Author

Scott Turow is a writer and attorney. He is the author of seven best-selling novels: Presumed Innocent (1987), The Burden of Proof (1990), Pleading Guilty (1993), The Laws of Our Fathers (1996), Personal Injuries (1999), Reversible Errors (2002) and Ordinary Heroes (2005). A novella, Limitations, was published as a paperback original in November 2006 by Picador following its serialization in The New York Times Magazine. His works of non-fiction include One L (1977) about his experience as a law student, and Ultimate Punishment (2003), a reflection on the death penalty. He frequently contributes essays and op-ed pieces to publications such as The New York Times, Washington Post, Vanity Fair, The New Yorker, Playboy and The Atlantic. Mr. Turow's books have won a number of literary awards, including the Heartland Prize in 2003 for Reversible Errors and the Robert F. Kennedy Book Award in 2004 for Ultimate Punishment and Time Magazine's Best Work of Fiction, 1999 for Personal Injuries. His books have been translated into more than 25 languages, sold more than 25 million copies world-wide and have been adapted into one full length film and two television miniseries.

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Critical Praise

"A compelling and important book it should be read by anyone who has ever contemplated going to law school. or anyone who has ever worried about being human."
-New York Times

"No description of this unique rite of passage quite matches One L."
-Newsweek

"An elegant report from the graduate school battlefield and from the heart."
-Boston Sunday Globe

"Absorbing for the layman as well as the lawyers, One L is compelling and even suspenseful reading."
-Business Week

"A fascinating account."
-Dallas-Fort Worth Star-Telegram

"Gripping, candid and straightforward."
-Sunday Oregonian

"An important document for those who have not been to law school, Turow makes the experience breathe; for those who have, he recalls it vividly."
-Chronicle of Higher Education Review

"A sensitive, dramatically paced account."
-New York Times

"Exciting."
-Kansas City Star

Grand Central Publishing
Category:
LAW
Format:
TRADE PAPERBACK
Publish Date:
9/1/1997
Price:
$13.95/$19.95
ISBN:
9780446673785
Pages:
288
Size:
5-1/4" x 8"

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