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...novella also includes other recurring favorites: psychics (“All That Remains”), neglected animals (“The Last Precinct”), and power-mongering women (“The Black Notice,” “Unnatural Exposure”). And the theme of male resentment against career women is constant and compelling in Scarpetta novels...
...definitely has a specific theme,” Derenoncourt says. “We’re trying to educate people about women’s issues at Harvard and internationally...
...assayed a fictionalized memoir about his childhood (A Painted House). Since then, he has written an inspirational holiday novel (Skipping Christmas), a football novel (Bleachers) and a spy thriller (The Broker). He even wrote and produced a movie, the Little League-- themed Mickey (sharp-eyed viewers will spot Grisham as the league commissioner). Now the writer who defines American escapism has strayed even further from the Theme. He has written his first book of nonfiction--a gritty, harrowing true-crime story, The Innocent Man (Doubleday; 360 pages...
...Theme is Grisham's own story. He grew up poor in Mississippi, the son of a construction worker. As a child, he picked cotton on his grandparents' farm. As a young man, he became a lawyer and then a member of the Mississippi House of Representatives, but all the while he nursed a secret writing habit. Grisham's first novel, A Time to Kill, had a print run of just 5,000 copies. His second book, The Firm, wasn't looking any more promising until Hollywood offered him $600,000 for the movie rights. After that Grisham's writing habit...
...didn't fit the Theme, but Williamson was exactly what Grisham needed as a writer, for exactly that reason. His thrillers are gleaming, perfectly calibrated machines, but books don't look right unless they have a few rough, unfinished patches. They cease to resemble reality, which is nothing if not rough around the edges. The Innocent Man may not handle like The Street Lawyer. It may never be a movie starring Tom Cruise. But it is undeniably real...