Dimensions
135 x 216 x 15mm
In the winter of 1996, Janet Malcom received a letter from a stranger, a disbarred lawyer named Sheila McGough, who had recently been released from prison, and who wrote that she had been convicted of a crime she had not committed.
This book - a dazzling meditation on character, law, and the incompatibility of narrative with truth - is the product of her growing belief that a miscarriage of justice had taken place.
Sheila McGough was prosecuted and convicted because the government (and then the jury) interpreted her zealous representation of a conman client as collaboration of his fraud. Malcolm's close reading of court records and her interviews with lawyers and businessmen connected with the case give a picture of American law that is startling in its pitiless specificity.
