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[1] [4] Jeff Ayers' review in The Philadelphia Inquirer highlighted the novel's exploration of the challenges defense attorneys face. [2] Book Reporter emphasized the novel's focus on wrongful convictions and the detailed process of exoneration, reflecting Grisham's passion for this subject, which is rooted in his experience as a practicing ...
The Guardians is a young-adult science fiction novel written by John Christopher and published by Hamilton in 1970. Set in the year 2052, it depicts an authoritarian England divided into two distinct societies: the modern , overpopulated "Conurbs" and the aristocratic , rarefied "County".
Effect of a rain shadow The Tibetan Plateau (center), perhaps the best example of a rain shadow. Rainfalls from the southern South Asian monsoon do not make it far past the Himalayas (seen by the snow line at the bottom), leading to an arid climate on the leeward (north) side of the mountain range and the desertification of the Tarim Basin (top).
Ellie Robins in the Los Angeles Review of Books noted that there are a number of "arresting visuals in a novel whose mode of narrative propulsion is to move from one striking image to the next. But let's be clear: the lack of interiority, the outward orientation of Arnott's eyeballs, doesn’t equate to shallowness here.
Sam Youd (16 April 1922 – 3 February 2012) was a British writer best known for science fiction written under the name of John Christopher, including the novels The Death of Grass, The Possessors, and the young-adult novel series The Tripods.
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The book has gone on to occupy a distinctive — and deserving — place in an emerging genre of Bombay noir." [ 6 ] Tim Martin of the Financial Times noted, "Ten years in the writing, The Mountain Shadow is the first of three proposed sequels to Shantaram, and continues its mission to transmit as many conclusions about the universe as the ...
Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers , when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia 's coal mining country.