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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...
...Turow is the 92nd writer to appear on the cover of TIME. The first was novelist Joseph Conrad in the magazine's sixth issue, in 1923. Eight have appeared twice: George Bernard Shaw (1923 and 1956), Sinclair Lewis (1927 and 1945), James Joyce (1934 and 1939), Ernest Hemingway (1937 and 1954), Andre Malraux (1938 and 1955), William Faulkner (1939 and 1964), Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn (1968 and 1974) and John Updike (1968 and 1982). Eugene O'Neill appeared four times (1924, 1928, 1931 and 1946). Other writers include Russell Baker, John Cheever, Noel Coward, Graham Greene, Alex Haley, John Irving, Jean Kerr...
Gray has been impressed by Turow's two novels, the first of which, Presumed Innocent, he reviewed for TIME three years ago. "I'm glad Turow's books have been added to the reading mix," says Gray, who besides being a book reviewer has been the principal writer of the new Grapevine section. "He's interested in putting plot and suspense back into fiction...
COVER: Scott Turow's new novel, The Burden of Proof, shows again why he is the Bard of the Litigious...
...lawyer who writes novels or a novelist who is a lawyer? In practice, as he demonstrated in his best-selling Presumed Innocent, Turow is both; his fiction bridges the divide between the popular and the serious, and the subject that keeps his readers turning pages is deeper than satisfactory verdicts. The pertinent evidence involves the redemption of souls...