书籍介绍
这不是一本让人读得舒服的法律普及读物，而是一场把读者架在极度乐观与极度绝望之间、毫无缓冲地来回甩动的长篇煎熬。作者以近乎白描的笔法，追踪一群波士顿小镇居民因井水被大化工公司污染而罹患白血病、进而发起七年诉讼的真实历程。真正打动人的，是它把'正义'从宏大的道德叙事里拽了出来，放进律师的信用卡账单、庭外和解的算计、证据规则的细枝末节之中——当审判的结果最终取决于某个人的品格与专业能力，'公平'便成了一种需要运气才能够到的奢侈品。它适合那些愿意慢下来、在冗长与琐碎中追问：普通人面对庞然大物时，正义究竟有多重、又有多脆。
作者简介
Jonathan Harr lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College. He is a former staff writer at New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.
Harr spent nine years researching and writing A Civil Action, which was published in 1995, subsequently nominated for a National Book Award, and awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award.,,
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