Rendering on cinema (3)

The article we’re going to discuss is taken from guardian.co.uk and is entitled “John Grisham to publish A Time to Kill sequel”.  It was contributed on 2 May 2013 by Alison Flood.

From the very beginning of the review it becomes evident that the author’s next thriller Sycamore Row will see heroic lawyer of Grisham's 1988 bestseller 'fight for justice' once again.First of all, it’s necessary to mention that twenty-five years after he made his first appearance, Jake Brigance, the young lawyer defending a black father who has killed his daughter's rapists in John Grisham's debut novel “A Time to Kill”, is set to return to the literary arena later this year.

Next, Grisham and his publisher Knopf Doubleday announced that the bestselling legal-thriller author was writing a follow-up to 1988's  “A Time to Kill”, in which Brigance will "fight … the good fight once again". Sycamore Row, out this autumn, will see Brigance forced to "fight for justice in a trial that could tear the small town of Clanton apart", said Knopf, promising that "the suspense never rests" in this latest outing from Grisham.

According to the plot, Clanton was also the setting for “A Time to Kill”, in which Brigance defended Carl Lee Hailey, on trial for murder after gunning down his daughter's white rapists. Moreover, the novel was written after Grisham – then a lawyer who had been elected to the state House of Representatives – overheard the testimony of a 12-year-old rape victim; he was inspired to explore what would have happened if her father had murdered her attackers.

As a result of all this, Grisham wrote the book in three years, getting up at 5am to work on it before he started his day job. He received a host of rejections from publishers, but the novel was eventually acquired by Wynwood Press, with 5,000 copies printed in 1988.

The author in fact concludes by saying that it was Grisham's second novel, “The Firm”, that made his name and allowed him to turn his hobby into a career: it became the bestselling novel of 1991, with the author's continuing success eventually prompting the reissue of “A Time to Kill”, which quickly became a hit. The debut went on to be adapted for film, starring Matthew McConaughey as Brigance.

To conclude, I’d like to say that the opinion of the Grisham’s works is ambiguous. As for me, I consider he to be a very interesting modern writer, that’s really worth reading.