{"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\u003e\u003c\/p\u003eIn 1935, a beautiful young schoolteacher is accused of murdering her coal-miner father in\u003cbr\u003ea Virginia mountain community. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\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.\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAbout the Author\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003eSharyn McCrumb is the author of \u003ci\u003eThe Ballad of Frankie Silver\u003c\/i\u003e\u003ci\u003e, She Walks These Hills, \u003c\/i\u003e and many other award-winning novels. Her books have been named Notable Books of the Year by \u003ci\u003eThe\u003c\/i\u003e \u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e and the \u003ci\u003eLos Angeles Times\u003c\/i\u003e. She was named a \"Virginia Woman of History\" for achievement in literature in 2008. She lives and writes in the Virginia Blue Ridge, less than a hundred miles from where her family settled in 1790 in the Smoky Mountains that divide North Carolina and Tennessee.\u003cbr\u003e","brand":"St. Martin's Griffin","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":50523531018514,"sku":"9780312573621","price":17.99,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0831\/4771\/8930\/files\/img_f5135123-1bfa-4304-9d5f-2d8fa4e5b68a.jpg?v=1731150984","url":"https:\/\/surprise-castle.myshopify.com\/products\/the-devil-amongst-the-lawyers-a-ballad-novel-9780312573621","provider":"Surprise Castle","version":"1.0","type":"link"}