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Barcode30293101978943
LocationClark County
Call NoF Gute
TitleThe final case / David Guterson.
AuthorGuterson, David. author.
CollectionF
Total Circ2
NumReserves0
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LocationBarcodeCall NoCreated OnIssue NameCirc StatusTemp Loc
Clark County30293101978943F Gute1/9/2022 AvailableClark County

Catalog Details

International Standard Book Number 9780525521327 (hardcover)
International Standard Book Number 0525521321
Personal Name Guterson, David. author.
Title Statement The final case / David Guterson.
Edition Statement First edition.
Production, Publication, Distribution, Manufacture, and Copyright Notice New York : Alfred A. Knopf, 2022.
Physical Description 245 pages ; 22 cm.
Summary, Etc. "A provocative new novel from the best-selling author of Snow Falling on Cedars--a moving father-son story that is also a taut courtroom drama and a bold examination of privilege, power, and how to live a meaningful life. In a small rural town outside Seattle, Joanna, an Ethiopian girl adopted by a white fundamentalist Christian family, is found dead of hypothermia in her own backyard--setting in motion a gripping journey into the complexities of human emotion. How does it feel to be a child taken into a family that doesn't share her background, her religion, or the color of her skin? What does it mean to be a mother on trial for murder? And why would a lawyer choose to defend such a woman? Royal is a criminal attorney in his eighties, and this is his final case. His son, our narrator, drives Royal every day from his office to the town where the tragedy took place, and observes the trial as it unfolds. The consequences will reach beyond what he could have anticipated. Bracing, astute, and intensely imagined, The Final Case is a tightrope walk of a novel, a deeply affecting work of fiction that dares to confront life's most irreconcilable moral quandaries. It will make an indelible impression on every reader"-- Provided by publisher.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Trials (Murder) Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Fathers and sons Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Child abuse Fiction.
Subject Added Entry - Topical Term Interracial adoption Fiction.
Index Term-Genre/Form Legal fiction (Literature)

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