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...BURDEN OF PROOF by Scott Turow (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; $22.95). The summer's hottest read by the Chicago attorney and best-selling author brings back Presumed Innocent defense lawyer Alejandro Stern, now faced with the mystery of his wife's suicide, a commodities-market scandal and the realization that justice is never blind when it gets too close to home...
...husband and four young children. He tracks her down, and she relents as "her body starts flowing toward the baby." A man returns to the ranch where his mother has married a drunken old farmhand and finds she has done the right thing. In a Father's Place (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 214 pages; $18.95) is filled with such surprises, along with a profound sense of place, character and incident. Christopher Tilghman's first book announces one of the year's most significant debuts...
...surely there must be a potential class action on behalf of writers, charging Turow with monopolistic practices over the pool of money available for new books. Presumed Innocent racked up several records. Farrar, Straus & Giroux paid Turow $200,000, the most the publisher had ever advanced for a first novel. A paperback sale of $3 million followed, another first-novel first. Then came a million dollars more from Hollywood, and royalties from the 18 foreign-language editions of the novel are still rolling in. Neither Turow nor FS&G will disclose the financial arrangements surrounding The Burden of Proof; what...
...this guy be for real? Writers, especially the rich and famous ones, are not supposed to be self-effacing and cooperative, nor to heap praise and gratitude on their editors and publishers. Turow regularly does: "Jonathan Galassi ((editor in chief at Farrar, Straus & Giroux)) made recommendations that substantially improved both Presumed Innocent and The Burden of Proof. After the way I've been treated by my publisher, I'd be a schmuck to think about going somewhere else." That is a distinct departure in an age when publishing-world loyalties have been swept away by bidding wars and the lure...
...Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 515 pages...