John Grisham's Blog, page 9
April 8, 2012
America’s Favorite Storyteller takes on America’s Favorite Pastime
A surprising and moving novel of fathers and sons, forgiveness and redemption, set in the world of Major League Baseball…
Whatever happened to Calico Joe?
It began quietly enough with a pulled hamstring. The first baseman for the Cubs AAA affiliate in Wichita went down as he rounded third and headed for home. The next day, Jim Hickman, the first baseman for the Cubs, injured his back. The team suddenly needed someone to play first, so they reached down to their AA club in Midland, Texas, and called up a twenty-one-year-old named Joe Castle. He was the hottest player in AA and creating a buzz.
In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.
Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his Dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever…
In John Grisham’s new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it’s what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.
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January 17, 2012
America's Favorite Storyteller takes on America's Favorite Pastime
Whatever happened to Calico Joe?
In the summer of 1973 Joe Castle was the boy wonder of baseball, the greatest rookie anyone had ever seen. The kid from Calico Rock, Arkansas dazzled Cub fans as he hit home run after home run, politely tipping his hat to the crowd as he shattered all rookie records.
Calico Joe quickly became the idol of every baseball fan in America, including Paul Tracey, the young son of a hard-partying and hard-throwing Mets pitcher. On the day that Warren Tracey finally faced Calico Joe, Paul was in the stands, rooting for his idol but also for his Dad. Then Warren threw a fastball that would change their lives forever…
In John Grisham's new novel the baseball is thrilling, but it's what happens off the field that makes CALICO JOE a classic.
On sale April 10.
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December 2, 2011
Finley & Figg: We’ll Fight For You!
To highlight the “laugh out loud hilarious” nature of THE LITIGATORS, we’ve created a TV commercial for the hapless law firm, Finley & Figg, at the heart of this surprising novel. Give them a call, they’ll fight for you whatever ails you.
Finley & Figg: We'll Fight For You!
To highlight the "laugh out loud hilarious" nature of THE LITIGATORS, we've created a TV commercial for the hapless law firm, Finley & Figg, at the heart of this surprising novel. Give them a call, they'll fight for you whatever ails you.
November 14, 2011
THE LITIGATORS collects great reviews!
And, The Chicago Tribune, in a review of THE LITIGATORS, delivers the "delightful news" that Grisham is "getting better and better."
Meanwhile, in the UK, The Guardian hails the "magnificently unsavoury, wonderfully charismatic Finley & Figg" at the heart of THE LITIGATORS.
The Huffington Post calls THE LITIGATORS "laugh out loud hilarious" and "fascinating" and "proof positive [Grisham] is not getting older, he is getting better."
And, The Chicago Tribune, in a review of THE LITIGATORS, delivers the "delightful news" that Grisham is "getting better and better."
Meanwhile, in the UK, The Guardian hails the "magnificently unsavoury, wonderfully charismatic Finley & Figg" at the heart of THE LITIGATORS.
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October 31, 2011
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July 28, 2011
John Grisham wins Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction.
John Grisham's THE CONFESSION wins the 2011 Harper Lee Prize for Legal Fiction, co-sponsored by The University of Alabama School of Law and the ABA Journal | http://bit.ly/JGprz
July 19, 2011
THE LITIGATORS: Plot elements revealed!
Here is the approved "flap copy" for THE LITIGATORS.
The partners at Finley & Figg—all two of them—often refer to themselves as "a boutique law firm." Boutique, as in chic, selective, and prosperous. They are, of course, none of these things. What they are is a two-bit operation always in search of their big break, ambulance chasers who've been in the trenches much too long making way too little. Their specialties, so to speak, are quickie divorces and DUIs, with the occasional jackpot of an actual car wreck thrown in. After twenty plus years together, Oscar Finley and Wally Figg bicker like an old married couple but somehow continue to scratch out a half-decent living from their seedy bungalow offices in southwest Chicago.
And then change comes their way. More accurately, it stumbles in. David Zinc, a young but already burned-out attorney, walks away from his fast-track career at a fancy downtown firm, goes on a serious bender, and finds himself literally at the doorstep of our boutique firm. Once David sobers up and comes to grips with the fact that he's suddenly unemployed, any job—even one with Finley & Figg—looks okay to him.
With their new associate on board, F&F is ready to tackle a really big case, a case that could make the partners rich without requiring them to actually practice much law. An extremely popular drug, Krayoxx, the number one cholesterol reducer for the dangerously overweight, produced by Varrick Labs, a giant pharmaceutical company with annual sales of $25 billion, has recently come under fire after several patients taking it have suffered heart attacks. Wally smells money.
A little online research confirms Wally's suspicions—a huge plaintiffs' firm in Florida is putting together a class action suit against Varrick. All Finley & Figg has to do is find a handful of people who have had heart attacks while taking Krayoxx, convince them to become clients, join the class action, and ride along to fame and fortune. With any luck, they won't even have to enter a courtroom!
It almost seems too good to be true.
And it is.
The Litigators is a tremendously entertaining romp, filled with the kind of courtroom strategies, theatrics, and suspense that have made John Grisham America's favorite storyteller.
THE LITIGATORS is available in hardcover and as an eBook on October 25, 2011.
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June 28, 2011
THE LITIGATORS cover revealed
Here, at last, is the cover for John Grisham's new legal thriller, THE LITIGATORS.
THE LITIGATORS is available in hardcover and as an eBook on October 25, 2011.
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