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The Crime of Sheila McGough

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

By Janet Malcolm

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    About The Crime of Sheila McGough

    "[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 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.

    About The Crime of Sheila McGough

    "[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 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.

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    About Janet Malcolm

    Janet Malcolm is an author and a journalist at The New Yorker. Her books include Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Born in Prague, she grew up in… More about Janet Malcolm

    About Janet Malcolm

    Janet Malcolm is an author and a journalist at The New Yorker. Her books include Reading Chekhov: A Critical Journey, The Crime of Sheila McGough, and The Silent Woman: Sylvia Plath and Ted Hughes. Born in Prague, she grew up in… More about Janet Malcolm

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    Feb 08, 2000 | 176 Pages | 5-1/2 x 8-1/2 | ISBN 9780375704598

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    "No portrait of innocence was ever more damning, revealing, and compassionate at once…. Janet Malcolm [is] a formidable reporter." —The Boston Globe

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