Word: sterne
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...heart of Presumed Innocent is a murder trial, its intricate arabesques portrayed in breathtaking detail, in which the defendant is almost -- almost -- certainly not the guilty party. The Burden of Proof offers a hero, Alejandro ("Sandy") Stern, the brilliant attorney who defended the accused narrator of Presumed Innocent, who must reconcile his responsibilities to his profession with those to his family. As the novel makes clear, Sandy cannot do both...
...Innocent and anticipates complaints that the new novel does not repeat the formula of the old. "But that was intentional," he says. "I was wildly afraid of self-imitation when I began the second book. And I'm proud of The Burden of Proof, particularly the portrait of Sandy Stern and his complicated involvements in family life...
...Clara Stern, wife of the distinguished trial lawyer Alejandro Stern, back her Seville into the garage, close the door and start the engine? Who was supposed to cash the $850,000 check she left with her banker before she took her life? How did this reticent Midwestern matron contract genital herpes? And what is the connection between her death and the Government's investigation of Maison Dixon, a commodity-futures firm owned by her brother-in-law Dixon Hartnell...
...only thing different is there are more women," said Joseph S. Stern '40 of Cincinnatti, Ohio. "Otherwise the scene hasn't changed that much...
...long as Elsie's is here, the place will do all right," Stern said...