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The Crime of Sheila McGough
Janet Malcolm
出版Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, 2013-01-16
主題True Crime / Con Artists, Hoaxes & DeceptionsBiography & Autobiography / Lawyers & JudgesBiography & Autobiography / Criminals & Outlaws
ISBN03078305789780307830579
URLhttp://books.google.com.hk/books?id=JuSUApRu9IIC&hl=&source=gbs_api
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註釋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.

"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth." --The New York Times Book Review

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 lawyer duped by a white-collar con man; a woman who lives, at the age of 54, with her parents; a journalistic subject who frustrates her interviewer with her maddening literal-mindedness. Spirited, illuminating, delightfully detailed, The Crime of Sheila McGough is both a dazzling work of journalism and a searching meditation on character and the law.