Gray Mountain (Grisham novel)

Gray Mountain
Author John Grisham
Country United States
Language English
Genre Legal thriller
Publisher Doubleday
Publication date
 October 23, 2014
ISBN 978-0-385-53714-8

Gray Mountain is a legal thriller novel by John Grisham, published in hardcover on October 23, 2014. The book is set in Appalachia after the Great Recession and follows third-year associate Samantha Kofer after the Bankruptcy of Lehman Brothers, when she becomes a legal clinic intern in Virginia's coal mining country.[1]

Notable facts

The novel describes the great danger to the environment posed by strip-mining for coal.

Grisham consulted with Mary Cromer, an attorney with the Appalachian Citizen's Law Center and a Washington and Lee University School of Law alumna, as research for the novel.[2] This is one of the few Grisham novels which feature a strong female protagonist (Samantha Kofer).[3] Scully & Pershing, the law firm Kofer is furloughed from in New York City,[4] is the same law firm that employed Kyle McAvoy in Grisham's novel The Associate (2009).[5]

Notes

  1. ↑ Shaffi, Sarah (June 25, 2014). "Grisham to tackle recession in Gray Mountain". The Bookseller. Retrieved September 7, 2014.
  2. ↑ Jetton, Peter (December 1, 2014). "Author John Grisham Turns to W&L Law Alumna for Help with Recent Novel". Washington and Lee University. Retrieved December 1, 2014.
  3. ↑ Schoemann-McCann, Molly. "John Grisham Explores New Territory in Gray Mountain". Barnes & Noble. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  4. ↑ Grisham, John (November 12, 2014). "Excerpt from 'Gray Mountain'". Newsday. Retrieved January 9, 2015.
  5. ↑ Maslin, Janet (January 25, 2009). "Another Young Lawyer Is Served Up for Breakfast". The New York Times. Retrieved January 9, 2015.


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