{"product_id":"the-devil-amongst-the-lawyers-a-ballad-novel-9780312573621","title":"The Devil Amongst the Lawyers: A Ballad Novel","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"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.\"--\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in\u003cbr\u003ea Virginia mountain community.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eNational journalists descend on Wise County, intent upon exonerating the defendant, and on stereotyping the mountain community to satisfy their Depression-era readers.\u003cbr\u003e But local cub reporter Carl Jennings writes what he sees: an ordinary town and a defendant who is probably guilty.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eThe 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eA literary tour de force, \u003ci\u003eThe Devil Amongst the Lawyers \u003c\/i\u003econtinues 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.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eBinding Type:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e St. Martin's Griffin\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 06\/07\/2011\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780312573621\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 320\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.64lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.26h x 5.59w x 0.89d","brand":"Sharyn McCrumb","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":36635912503452,"sku":"9780312573621","price":20.4,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0473\/0804\/6492\/products\/img_ee91ff03-ed93-480a-8e5f-10be1d010348.jpg?v=1603840884","url":"https:\/\/pastforward.org\/products\/the-devil-amongst-the-lawyers-a-ballad-novel-9780312573621","provider":"Past Forward","version":"1.0","type":"link"}