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...Scott Turow's legions of readers will immediately understand, this murder is only the beginning of an increasingly labyrinthine story. The Laws of Our Fathers (Farrar, Straus & Giroux; 534 pages; $26.95) follows Turow's three previous best-selling novels--Presumed Innocent, The Burden of Proof and Pleading Guilty --in its portrayal of life, death and the search for justice in the Tri-Cities area of Kindle County, an imaginary Rustbelt terrain of remarkable moral and spiritual ambiguity. Once again a sensational trial forms the ostensible center of the novel while Turow demonstrates how inadequately the order in the courtroom mirrors...
...industry will surely perk up with the arrival of new novels from the likes of Michael Crichton, Scott Turow, John le Carre and Tom Clancy (see box). But rival publishers are probably not happy knowing that within a month there will be two more Stephen King books on the market. In another bit of publishing gimmickry, both novels--which share the same cast of characters in skewed, slightly different roles--will be published the same day, Sept. 24. One is Desperation (Viking; 688 pages; $27.95). The other is The Regulators, written under King's occasional nom de plume, Richard Bachman...
Second-year Harvard Law School student James G. Berman '90 has just released his first novel, Uninvited, following in the footsteps of fellow HLS alumnus--and author of Presumed Innocent--Scott Turow...
...Turow, who received his J.D. in 1978, wrote his first novel, One-L, during his years at the Law School. Berman's novel was just released nationwide by Warner Books and will be in bookstores...
Across the country, 800 writers including Scott Turow, William Styron, Maya Angelou and Joyce Carol Oates will participate in the effort, which organizers hope will raise $100,000 for the hungry, Andrews said...