Reversible Errors by Scott Turow (2002, Hardcover) Item specifics Condition: Very Good: A book that does not look new and has been read but is in excellent condition. No obvious damage to. ISBN-10: 0374281602 Publication Year: 2002 ISBN-13: 9780374281601 Language: English Author: Scott Turow Special Attributes: 1st Edition Format: Book, Trade Cloth Country of Manufacture: United States Detailed item info: Synopsis A super-charged, exquisitely suspenseful novel about a vicious triple murder and the man condemned to die for it Rommy "Squirrel" Gandolph is a Yellow Man, an inmate on death row for a 1991 triple murder in Kindle County. His slow progress toward certain execution is nearing completion when Arthur Raven, a corporate lawyer who is Rommy's reluctant court-appointed representative, receives word that another inmate may have new evidence that will exonerate Gandolph. Arthur's opponent in the case is Muriel Wynn, Kindle County's formidable chief deputy prosecuting attorney, who is considering a run for her boss's job. Muriel and Larry Starczek, the original detective on the case, don't want to see Rommy escape a fate they long ago determined he deserved, for a host of reasons. Further complicating the situation is the fact that Gillian Sullivan, the judge who originally found Rommy guilty, is only recently out of prison herself, having served time for taking bribes. Scott Turow's compelling, multi-dimensional characters take the reader into Kindle County's parallel yet intersecting worlds of police and small-time crooks, airline executives and sophisticated scammers--and lawyers of all stripes. No other writer offers such a convincing true-to-life picture of how the law and life interact, or such a profound understanding of what is at stake--personally, professionally, and morally--when the state holds the power to end a man's life. Product Identifiers ISBN-10 0374281602 ISBN-13 9780374281601 Key Details Author Scott Turow Number Of Pages 448 pages Format Hardcover Publication Date 2002-11-01 Language English Publisher Farrar, Straus & Giroux Additional Details Copyright Date 2002 Dimensions Weight 26.1 Oz Height 1.3 In. Width 6.2 In. Length 9.2 In. Target Audience Group Trade Classification Method LCCN 2002-070891 LC Classification Number PS3570.U754R48 2002 Dewey Decimal 813/.54 Dewey Edition 21 Reviews: "No one on the contemporary scene writes better myster-suspense novels than Scott Turow." --Bill Blum,Los Angeles Times Book Review "When Scott Turow writes about a milieu, he knows whereof he speaks. You know he made it up, but you also know it's real." --George V. Higgins,Chicago Tribune "Turow brings a literary sensibility to a grit-and-gravel genre: if he calls to mind any comparison, it's to John le Carre. His novels are shaped by [a] studied bleakness, an introspect's embrace of the gray-zone ambiguities of modern life." --Gail Caldwell,The Boston Sunday Globe "Turow istheclass act of legal thriller writers." --Publishers Weekly "Turow moves skillfully between past and present, revealing tiny tidbits of fact, circumstance, and motive as he goes and leaving it up to the reader not only to construct the story's linear progression but to understand the significance of the book's title as both a legal entity within its plot and a personal reality for its characters." --Library Journal Certain data records © 2013 Bowker. Rights in cover images reserved by owners. Most Helpful Customer Reviews: 33 of 35 people found the following review helpful Surprisingly Good Book By R. Albin TOP 500 REVIEWER on December 16, 2002 Format: Hardcover This is Turow's best novel. Turow has taken a genre format, the legal thriller, and attempted to produce a broader psychological novel using the conventions of the genre. The central plot element is the effort of a lawyer to free a semi-retarded prisoner from Death Row. Set in Turow's fictional world of Kindle County, a fictionalized version of Chicago, the book recounts the efforts of the defense counsel, Arthur Raven, to free his client, and the equivalent efforts of the prosecuting team to sustain the conviction. Wrapped around this armature are the primary themes of the book, regret for past choices and failures, and efforts to correct past errors. All the major characters in this book are in some way haunted by prior choices in life. In the course of the story, all of them have some opportunity to revisit and rectify those errors. Some of these errors are crimes, some are ethical lapses, some are professional misconduct, some merely personal failings, and some varying combinations of all these. Turow is a good writer. His characterizations are excellent and he has a real talent for writing dialogue. The plot of Reversible Errors is constructed well, perhaps a bit too cleverly. His primary protagonist, Arthur Raven, is an extremely sympathetic character; a bit of an everyman who succeeds on the basis of diligence and decency rather than talent. This is an ambitious book and Turow largely succeeds in his aim of exploring regret and the consequences of unfortunate choices in life. Some parts of the book are affecting. This is probably the first of Turow's books that deserves to be classified with other works that surpass their genre such as the better novels of PD James or John Le Carre.

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