Sparring Partners - John Grisham
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Sparring Partners
Although I enjoy Grisham’s writings, I am not a fan of novellas and Sparring Partners is composed of three of them.
Homecoming. The time is 1991, the place is Ford County, the setting of other Grisham works. Attorney Mack Stafford disappeared from the town ofClanton; he declared bankruptcy, divorced his wife, abandoned his family. There was a lot of suspicion that he absconded with ill gotten funds. Three years later, he reaches out to attorney Jake Brigance (a Grisham character readers have met in earlier works) because he wants to return home.
Grisham is a talented storyteller; this story is meh.
Strawberry Moon chronicles the last three hours of a young man on death row about to be executed. When he was 14, he and his brother burgled a house resulting in the homeowners and his brother being killed. As an accomplice, he was sentenced to death. Now 19, he reflects back on his history and his life in solitary.
This was a heartbreaking story.
Sparring Partners chronicles a family law practice. The founder is in jail for murdering his wife; his sons who hate each other are driving the business into the ground. All of their unsavory antics are observed by a long suffering associate.
I thought this the best of the three offerings; well worth a read and I loved the ending!
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