| La Herencia / Sycamore Row: (The Inheritance: Sycamore Row--Spanish-Language Edition) Contributor(s): Grisham, John (Author) |
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ISBN: 110187225X ISBN-13: 9781101872253 Publisher: Vintage Espanol OUR PRICE: $14.40 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Language: Spanish Published: December 2014 |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Thrillers - Suspense - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Legal |
| Dewey: 813.54 |
| Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 8.2" (0.90 lbs) 576 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: Seth Hubbard est muri ndose de c ncer y ha decidido acabar con su vida. Es un hombre rico que no se f a de nadie, ni siquiera de su propia familia. Antes de ahorcarse en un rbol, escribe a mano un nuevo testamento, aunque sabe muy bien que est escrito provocar una lucha encarnizada entre sus hijos y su sirvienta negra, la heredera principal. Jake Brigance es el abogado que recibir este testamento por correo y que tendr que defender la ltima voluntad de Hubbard. Por qu decidi Seth dejar su gran fortuna a su sirvienta? Estaba en su sano juicio despu s de los largos tratamientos de quimioterapia y de la ingesti n continua de fuertes analg sicos? En La herencia, John Grisham nos transporta otra vez al mundo de Clanton, aquel pueblo sure o de su primera novela, Tiempo de matar. Han pasado tres a os desde que Jake Brigance, el joven abogado blanco, se encarg de la defensa del padre de una ni a negra violada que se hab a tomado la justicia por su mano. De nuevo, los ricos y los pobres, los blancos y los negros, toman partido y dividen el pueblo. ENGLISH DESCRIPTION #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER John Grisham returns to the iconic setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill, as Jake Brigance finds himself embroiled in a controversial trial that exposes a tortured history of racial tension. Seth Hubbard is a wealthy white man dying of lung cancer. He trusts no one. Before he hangs himself from a sycamore tree, Hubbard leaves a new, handwritten will. It is an act that drags his adult children, his black maid, and defense attorney Jake Brigance into a conflict as riveting and dramatic as the murder trial that made Brigance one of Ford County's most notorious citizens, just three years earlier. The second will raises many more questions than it answers. Why would Hubbard leave nearly all of his fortune to his maid? Had chemotherapy and painkillers affected his ability to think clearly? And what does it all have to do with a piece of land once known as Sycamore Row? "Welcome back, Jake. . . . Brigance] is one of the most fully developed and engaging characters in all of Grisham's novels."--USA Today |