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Grisham fires ‘Chamber’
Author crafts gripping story with familiar style,
focuses on a lawyer's search for his past
By Jeremy Keddie
The Battalion
“The Chamber”
By John Grisham
Previous works: “A Time to Kill,”
“The Firm,” “The Pelican Brief,”
and “The Client”
Doubleday, $24.95, 486
Curious about the gas cham
ber and what a death row in
mate ponders?
If so, John Grisham’s latest
novel “The Chamber” is sure to
be a page turner for you.
Similar to his 1991 best-sell
ing novel “The Firm” Grisham’s
latest focuses on a rookie lawyer,
Adam Hall, who is eager to es
tablish a name in his firm.
However, the novel lacks the
fast-paced action of “The Firm”
and instead evolves into a story
centered on a family’s history.
During the 1960s civil rights
movement, the novel unfolds af
ter the Ku Klux Klan bombs a
Jewish lawyer’s office. The ac
cused, Sam Cayhall, manages to
beat two capital murder trials
by hung juries until the case is
reopened in 1979.
A fellow Klan member tries to
beat an income tax evasion
charge by testifying about the
bombing.
The trial leads to a conviction
and a death sentence for Cay
hall, who now awaits his execu
tion scheduled for 1990.
Hall, a single lawyer, asks his
Chicago firm to let him work on
the Cayhall case on pro bono
(free of charge) terms.
Hall has his reasons for work
ing on this particular case which
might end up getting him dis
missed from the firm before he
passes his bar exam. Cayhall is
Hall’s grandfather and the ac
cused is badly in need of repre
sentation.
Here lies the second story
within the first — the secrets of
the Cayhall family and four gen
erations of Klu Klux Klan mem
bership. Hall wants to know
everything about the long, lost
history of his family.
By portraying the family’s se
crets and problems, Grisham re
turns to themes from “A Time to
Kill,” the best-selling novel deal
ing with a father enraged over
his daughter’s rape and murder.
“The Chamber” reads similar
ly and is filled with Grisham’s
smooth ear-catching dialogue.
With Cayhall’s sister Aunt
Lee, Grisham again presents a
strong feminine protagonist,
such as Darby Shaw, a charac
ter from another Grisham novel
“The Pelican Brief.”
From Lee and Cayhall, Hall
learns about his lost past and se
crets which he cannot stand to
hear, including what happened
to his father.
Once again, Grisham pre
sents society’s concerns and
problems through his charac
ters, such as Lee’s alcoholism
and unconventional marriage.
Grisham repeatedly hounds the
press and reporters, and ad
dresses human concerns about
the death penalty.
The two themes, Hall’s cu
riosity and Cayhall’s attempt to
postpone the execution, build
upon each other. The grandfa
ther and Hall battle the courts
together hoping to save his life
and fulfill Hall’s curiosity about
the Cayhall family.
Most impressive is the back
ground information which Gr
isham acquired for writing “The
Chamber.” He briefly explains
in his acknowledgements that,
as a criminal defense attorney,
he never had a client convicted
of capital punishment. For the
novel, Grisham interviewed oth
er lawyers and visited death row
at a prison.
As a result, “The Chamber” is
by far Grisham’s most realistic
novel and entertains for that
precise reason.
Winery
Continued from Page 4
“We do the same thing here
with our Harvest Pickers
Club,” Hale said.
Harvest takes place four
weekends in the summer. This
year’s festival falls on the
weekends of July 23, July 30,
August 6 and August 13.
But if you can’t make the
harvest dates, Messina Hof of
fers many guided tours
throughout the week.
Each begins in the reception
area, which has its own inter
esting history. Tumulty said
the building was once one of
the most beautiful homes in
Bryan until age and neglect al
most caused it to be demol
ished by the city.
Tours include an explana
tion of the characteristics of
“good” wine, the fermentation
and wine-making processes,,
aging, bottling and more.
And each tour saves the best
for last — an educational wine
tasting demonstration.
Flintstones
Continued from Page 4
this film to the screen, this
could have been so much better.
On the good side, the visuals
are entertaining, there are a
few decent laughs and the story
reinforces family values.
Younger viewers will be im
pressed by the stone sets and
props, and the many in-joke ref
erences to the Stone Age (Al
bert Ein-stone, the BC-52’s,
etc.).
But re-creating a cartoon as
a cartoon-looking, live-action
movie will only mildly entertain
adults, some of whom might re
member the series’ original run.
Towards the end I even
found myself praying for Gazoo,
the green alien from the car
toon series, to enter the story
line and save the day, but he
never came.
If you can’t resist the hype
and must see the movie, here’s
my advice: Yabba Dabba Don’t.
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