Word: turow
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Dates: during 1990-1999
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...Checchi says he has been thinking of running for office ever since age 12. "I was raised in a household where public service was valued," he says, recalling vividly that "[President] Kennedy died when I was 15. Bobby Kennedy died on my 20th birthday." Says author Scott Turow, Checchi's undergraduate roommate at Amherst College: "Al can rub people the wrong way, but he's always had a sense of personal destiny. He's always wanted to do good. He's a great idealist...
...copies before Oprah recommended it to her 15 million to 20 million daily viewers. Now The Deep End of the Ocean has become entrenched at the top of the New York Times fiction best-seller list, ahead of works by Sue Grafton, Danielle Steel, Mary Higgins Clark, Scott Turow and Stephen King. As she watched her novel sweep past such household names, Mitchard says, "I felt I was having an out-of-body experience...
...trial of Nile Eddgar is not primarily what Turow's novel is about. He is concerned instead with the emotional states of Sonny and Seth, who loved each other during the heady days of drugs and protests and who now, a quarter-century later, are stuck with the care-worn grownups they have separately become. "Having had such high hopes for the world," Sonny muses, "are we the unhappiest adult generation...
...this mode Turow's usually sure hand loses some grip. It becomes clear that Sonny and Seth--she divorced, he unhappily married--will sooner or later revisit their pasts and collapse into bed together. What seems a little surprising is that he offers her a marijuana joint afterward and she tokes up. And neither of these two intensely self-absorbed people considers the moral implications of their behavior--i.e., that Sonny's duties as a judge involve handing out sentences for doing the very thing she and Seth are enjoying...
...Turow obviously cares about Sonny and Seth and the lost possibilities they might somehow redeem, so much so that he cannot give his main characters the ironic distance their actions seem to require. This triumph of the heart over the head is a weakness concealing a strength. For The Laws of Our Fathers gathers considerable emotional power toward the end. The funeral of Seth's father, a Holocaust survivor and once the bane of his rebellious son's existence, calls together a number of the novel's main characters plus a cross-section of Kindle County, old and young, black...