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The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels Book 8) by Mccrumb, Sharyn is a work of fiction available to read on EtoBox.
What is The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels Book 8) about?
"Ms. McCrumb writes with quiet fire and maybe a little mountain magic. . . . She plucks the mysteries from people's lives and works these dark narrative threads into Appalachian legends older than the hills. Like every true storyteller, she has the Sight."—*The New York Times Book Review*In 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in a Virginia mountain community.National journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era readers. But local cub reporter Carl Jennings writes what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty.The novel resonates with the present: an economic depression; a deadly Japanese earthquake; the rise of political fanatics; and a media culture turning news stories into soap operas for the diversion of the masses.A literary tour de force, *The Devil Amongst the Lawyers *continues the Ballard saga by examining social issues that go well beyond the fate of one defendant. It is a testament to Sharyn McCrumb's lyrical and poetic writing about the mountain South.words : 104755
Who reads The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel (Ballad Novels Book 8)?
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Common subject areas: fiction, literature, genre fiction.
- Author
- Mccrumb, Sharyn
- Publisher
- Thomas Dunne Books : St. Martin's Griffin
- Published
- 2010
- Language
- EN
- ISBN
- 9781429921206
- Category
- work of fiction
- Subjects
- Fiction, Mystery, Historical Fiction
- Rating
- 3.54 / 5 (31 ratings)
- Updated
- 2026-03-14