One L
The Turbulent True Story of a First Year at Harvard Law School- By Scott Turow
Full Description
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
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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