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Original Title: Ford County
ISBN: 0385532458 (ISBN13: 9780385532457)
Edition Language: English
Setting: Ford County, Mississippi(United States)
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Ford County Hardcover | Pages: 308 pages
Rating: 3.61 | 19736 Users | 1970 Reviews

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Title:Ford County
Author:John Grisham
Book Format:Hardcover
Book Edition:Deluxe Edition
Pages:Pages: 308 pages
Published:November 3rd 2009 by Doubleday Books (first published November 3rd 2008)
Categories:Fiction. Short Stories. Mystery. Thriller. Legal Thriller. Crime. Adult Fiction

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In his first collection of short stories John Grisham takes us back to Ford County, Mississippi, the setting of his first novel, A Time to Kill.

Wheelchair-bound Inez Graney and her two older sons, Leon and Butch, take a bizarre road trip through the Mississippi Delta to visit the youngest Graney brother, Raymond, who's been locked away on death row for eleven years. It could well be their last visit.

Mack Stafford, a hard-drinking and low-grossing run-of-the-mill divorce lawyer, gets a miracle phone call with a completely unexpected offer to settle some old, forgotten cases for more money than he has ever seen. Mack is suddenly bored with the law, fed up with his wife and his life, and makes drastic plans to finally escape.

Quiet, dull Sidney, a data collector for an insurance company, perfects his blackjack skills in hopes of bringing down the casino empire of Clanton's most ambitious hustler, Bobby Carl Leach, who, among other crimes, has stolen Sidney's wife.

Three good ol' boys from rural Ford County begin a journey to the big city of Memphis to give blood to a grievously injured friend. However, they are unable to drive past a beer store as the trip takes longer and longer. The journey comes to an abrupt end when they make a fateful stop at a Memphis strip club.

The Quiet Haven Retirement Home is the final stop for the elderly of Clanton. It's a sad, languid place with little controversy, until Gilbert arrives. Posing as a low-paid bedpan boy, he is in reality a brilliant stalker with an uncanny ability to sniff out the assets of those "seniors" he professes to love.

One of the hazards of litigating against people in a small town is that one day, long after the trial, you will probably come face-to-face with someone you've beaten in a lawsuit. Lawyer Stanley Wade bumps into an old adversary, a man with a long memory, and the encounter becomes a violent ordeal.

Clanton is rocked with the rumor that the gay son of a prominent family has finally come home, to die. Of AIDS. Fear permeates the town as gossip runs unabated. But in Lowtown, the colored section of Clanton, the young man finds a soul mate in his final days.

Featuring a cast of characters you'll never forget, these stories bring Ford County to vivid and colorful life. Often hilarious, frequently moving, and always entertaining, this collection makes it abundantly clear why John Grisham is our most popular storyteller.

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The book is terrific, and I couldn't stop reading it until it was finished. The stories are funny and heart rendering. I was roaring with laughter at the foibles of "Leon, Butch and Raymond" in Fetching Raymond, while the conclusion of the story is not exactly happy, the journey to get Raymond is humourous.Funny Boy, was quite a different story, and left me truly feeling a deep sense of sadness for Adrian. Race indifference and ignorance regarding the AIDS's issue are fully exposed in this

Light, easy reading with the usual legal touch of Grisham. Good summer read.

I have read all of John Grisham's books but just finally got around to reading this collection of short stories about the fictional town of Clanton and Ford County, Mississippi. They are immensely entertaining stories. If you are a Grisham fan and never read this book, you should.

At the end of this collection of stories, the reader is left with a deep, unsettling ambivalence. On the one hand, Grisham wields a sense of place and of language with a confidence thats hard to beat. He places his characters in memorable, finely wrought settings, he gives them richly evoked material to work with, he writes dialogue that has the ring of truth to it. And then he observes those characters, as they move, live, and (mostly) suffer, with a chilly, anthropological detachment and

I really liked this. Grisham creates really fabulous characters & worlds & this is what this book showcases. If you have read Grisham's 'The Painted House' & any of his Ford County books & liked them, then you will like this. Its like a combination of those books, but in a short story format so its just great for when you need a quick & absorbing read. Really recommend it, especially the very last story about a young white gay man who comes home to Clanton to die - beautiful.

I have always loved short stories and most of the time wish many novels would have been handled as such, but THEY JUST DON'T MAKE MONEY for the publishing houses so unless your name is John Grisham, the editors and agents will take a good short story and S T R E T C H it out until it is novel length. So it was fun to read these 6 stories. You are able to get such a glimpse into small town Mississippi life through the eyes of vastly different charachters in such a short time. Ultimately these