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    The Laws of Our Fathers

    Written by Scott Turow

    Narrated by James Snyder, Orlagh Cassidy, Kevin T. Collins and Dion Graham

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    About this audiobook

    In Kindle County, a woman is killed in an apparent random drive-by shooting. The woman turns out to be the ex-wife of a prominent state senator and an old acquaintance of Judge Sonia Klonsky, on whose desk the case lands. As the pursuit of justice takes bizarre and unusual turns, Judge Klonsky is brought face-to-face with a host of extraordinary personalities and formidable enemies bent on her destruction.
    LanguageEnglish
    PublisherHachette Audio
    Release dateJun 1, 2010
    ISBN9781607883753
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    The Laws of Our Fathers
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    Scott Turow

    Scott Turow is the world-famous author of several bestselling novels about the law, from Presumed Innocent to Reversible Errors , as well as the wartime thriller Ordinary Heroes. He has also written an examination of the death penalty, Ultimate Punishment. He lives with his family outside Chicago, where he is a partner in the international law firm of Sonnenschein Nath & Rosenthal.

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    • 2/5
      2nd book by this author I have read. First one was hard going but this one was way too wordy and I lost interest many times. Did not finish
    • 4/5
      A good, if not great, book. A nice look at the hippie-turned-boomer class. I found myself as intrigued by the exposition of the past as I was with the actual trial.
    • 2/5
      5642. The Laws of the Fathers, by Scott Turow (read 7 Aug 2019) This is the sixth book I've read by this author. I was so tremendously impressed and caught up by his book, One L, about his first year in law school (which I read 20 May 1982) that i have often succumbed to reading his books, though none has ever impressed me the way One L did. The Laws of the Fathers was published in 1996 and is fiction, telling of a woman judge who tries a murder case involving lawyers she has known since her youth and the trial is attended by a columnist who twenty years before the judge, then in her early twenties, cohabitated with. She has since married, had a child, and divorced the child's father. Seth, the columnist, also has married, had a son (who died) and a daughter. No character in the book pays any attention to the Sixth Commandment, and the author inserts a few episodes pornagraphic in nature--which adds nothing to the tenor of the book. The trial is fairly interesting as is the account of the characters in their youth when they were hot against the Vietnam War--Seth almost goes to Canada to escape the draft. The trial ends and the book goes downhill from there, with much agonizing by the characters which I was so bored by that I was dismayed by how much of the book still remained to be read. So, some of the book is of interest but much is not.
    • 3/5
      The Law of Our Fathers is an ambitious work, taking on several meaty, hot button issues from the last 40 years: war protesting, the Holocaust, political activism, recreational drug use, gang violence, poverty, grief and oh lets see, unhappy childhood/unresolved parental conflict/middle age divorce. Scott Turow writes such total insight and witt, its hard to believe that a writer can create characters with that total depth and rich history. This is a lengthy novel that takes time to journey through given its sheer size. The story itself unfolds as two parallel universes; flipping between the past and the present, with the breaks coming at times of suspense, so there is motivation to read on. However, the story can be boggy. And the characters themselves? I can't say I really connected with them. But I do appreciate a well written story with a complex plot. This is a typical work of Turow, just not my favorite.
    • 4/5
      The complex story is told in two alternating tracks, with the first set in a lightly fictionalized late 60's Berkeley, and the second set in Turow's present-day Kindle County. The main character, Sonny, finds herself the judge of a murder trial involving people she has known for twenty years, and must decide it without the assistance of a jury. This book is very long and complex. You will need patiences for a story to get to the point. But, Turow writes extremely well and ranges widely, taking on gang culture, judicial corruption, and the ever present political manipulations. And he always has very interesting character at the center of his tale. I would suggest this not be the first Turow book you read.