| The Last Juror Contributor(s): Grisham, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 0385339682 ISBN-13: 9780385339681 Publisher: Vintage OUR PRICE: $16.20 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: April 2006 Annotation: In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers, The" "Ford County Times,"" went bankrupt. To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23-year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family. Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper. The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi. The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him. Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison. But in Mississippi in 1970, "life" didn't necessarily mean "life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled. He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Legal - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 380 |
| Physical Information: 0.92" H x 5.3" W x 8" (0.67 lbs) 416 pages |
| Themes: - Chronological Period - 1950-1999 - Cultural Region - Deep South - Cultural Region - South - Geographic Orientation - Mississippi |
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| Quiz #: 78192 Reading Level: 6.8 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 19.0 |
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| Publisher Description: In 1970, Willie Traynor came to Clanton, Mississippi, in a Triumph Spitfire and a fog of vague ambitions. Within a year, the twenty-three-year-old found himself the owner of Ford County's only newspaper, famous for its well-crafted obituaries. While the rest of America was in the grips of turmoil, Clanton lived on the edge of another age--until the brutal murder of a young mother rocked the town and thrust Willie into the center of a storm. Daring to report the true horrors of the crime, Willie made as many friends as enemies in Clanton, and over the next decade he would sometimes wonder how he had gotten there in the first place. But he could never escape the crime that had shattered his innocence or the criminal whose evil had left an indelible stain. Because as the ghosts of the South's past gather around Willie, as tension swirls around Clanton, men and women who served on a jury nine years ago are starting to die one by one--as a killer exacts the ultimate revenge. . . . |