Word: turow
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Readers of Scott Turow's previous blockbuster, Presumed Innocent, will know better than to hold their breath for answers. Turow, a lawyer who has kept jurors as well as readers on the edge of their chairs, has a preternatural knack for drawing out the suspense. The gimmick in Presumed Innocent was to follow the mystery through the eyes of the accused murderer, Rusty Sabich, a public prosecutor on trial for the murder of an amorous colleague. The intimate narrative device ensured reader sympathy, even though Sabich waited until the final pages to tell all he knew about the corpus delectable...
There is even a quasi romance with his adversary, Assistant U.S. Attorney Sonia ("Sonny") Klonsky, an admirable model of today's busy woman. In addition to a grueling office schedule, she has to deal with an unhappy marriage, an advanced pregnancy and the possibility of recurrent breast cancer. Turow puts Sandy and Sonny in a hot tub together. But the bubbly alchemy is less convincing than their professional chemistry. Exchanges about subpoenas and fiduciary relationships resound with the authority of a judge's gavel. Clear explanations of how dishonest brokers and floor traders operate should add to the damage-control...
...story well told. Its characters are substantial, and its underlying theme of family has been central to the popular novel from War and Peace to The * Godfather. So here is a forecast you can't refuse: this summer, readers from Montauk to Maui will be turning the pages of Turow's book fast enough to air- condition the country...
When senior writer Paul Gray sat down with Scott Turow in his law office in Chicago's Sears Tower, Gray found the best-selling novelist friendly but also rather circumspect. "He is, after all, an attorney," says Gray. "He measures his words carefully." But when the venue shifted to the comfortable writing den in Turow's home, half-an-hour's train ride away, conversation loosened up. "When we talked about literature, the enthusiasm bubbled up," says Gray. "Turow gets extremely animated when he talks about writers. It was like a college session, with two instructors getting together over...
That's not surprising. In a previous, low-salaried incarnation, Turow taught creative writing at Stanford University. Gray, who earned a Ph.D. in English from the University of Virginia, taught courses in 20th century fiction at Princeton University for seven years before joining TIME in 1972. "We found that we shared an annoyance at the academic approach to literature, and that we've read almost all the same books over the past 20 years." Gray adds with a self-deprecating grin, "Turow's reading tastes are impeccable...