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...case, the entire, ever wistful publishing industry now chases riches through barratry, the offense of excessive litigation. There is a cranked-out feel to most legal thrillers. Virtually all are blurbed as the work of the next Turow, which may not be an endorsement, since Turow's plodding prose can be a way not of passing time but doing it. Still, a few lawyer novels pass minimal standards as survival gear. For the next time you're sentenced to 7 to 10 years between planes at O'Hare, here's a sampling of legal thrillers...
Mitigating Circumstances (Dutton; $20), by Nancy Taylor Rosenberg, needs some mitigating by an editor. Or maybe not; the prose is so purple it's golden. An aerobic love passage ends with the heroine, an assistant prosecutor named Lily Forrester, hyperventilating as follows: "Her body was screaming at her, begging her, demanding more. Perhaps she could actually feed this desire, this need." A lawyer's body wouldn't really carry on this way, would...
...incapable of being confined to any one theme. His dazzling prose and exquisite reworking of oft-prosaic themes reflect a formidable talent, harnessed in the service of sheer pleasure as well as intellectual challenge...
...GRAND GOTHIC HEADQUARTERS OF THE CHICAGO TRIBUNE has been designated a smoke-free zone, from the basement to the executive suites on the 24th floor . . .with one exception: the ramshackle cubbyhole on the fourth floor, where numero uno columnist MIKE ROYKO bats out his prose...
...asks. "The land was free, yet it cost their lives . . . In letters mailed back home her Eastern sisters they would moan as they would read accounts of madness, childbirth, loneliness and grief." The words are printed like this in the album notes, as if they were bits of homespun prose from some cosmic farmer's almanac; but Merchant sings them with dreamy, insistent fervor, like a reverie from O Pioneers! Or maybe Wisconsin Death Trip...