Crime of Sheila Mcgough

Name: Crime of Sheila Mcgough
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ISBN: 9780375704598

ISBN-10: 0375704590

ISBN-13: 9780375704598

Edition: N/A

Authors: Janet Malcolm

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"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review The Crime of Sheila McGough is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently released from prison. McGough had served 2 1/2 years for collaborating with a client in his fraud, but insisted that she didn't commit any of the 14 felonies she was convicted. An astonishingly persuasive condemnation of the cupidity of American law and its preference for convincing narrative rather than the truth, this is also a story with an unconventional heroine. McGough is a zealous defense…

Book details

List price: $15.00
Publisher: Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication date: 2/8/2000
Binding: Paperback
Pages: 176
Size: 5.50" wide x 8.50" long x 0.30" tall
Weight: 0.440
Language: English