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哈波．李文學獎評審一致盛讚《Pleasantville》兼具瑰麗文藻與鮮明角色，好比《梅岡城故事》。本小說作家Attica Locke透過劇情鋪陳，牽著我們走出法院，走進律師內在真正的心。

In this sophisticated thriller, lawyer Jay Porter, hero of Locke's bestseller Black Water Rising, returns to fight one last case, only to become embroiled once again in a dangerous game of shadowy politics and a witness to how far those in power are willing to go to win. When a girl goes missing on Election Night, 1996, in the
neighborhood of Pleasantville—a hamlet for upwardly-mobile blacks on the north side of Houston—Jay, a single father, is deeply disturbed. He’s been representing Pleasantville in the wake of a chemical fire, and the case is dragging on, raising doubts about his ability.

The missing girl was a volunteer for one of the local mayoral candidates, and her disappearance complicates an already heated campaign. When the nephew of one of the candidates, a Pleasantville local, is arrested, Jay reluctantly finds himself serving as a defense attorney. With a man’s life and his own reputation on the line, Jay is about to try his first murder in a case that will also put an electoral process on trial, exposing the dark side of power and those determined to keep it.

 

Attica Locke is the author of Black Water Rising, which was nominated for a
2010 Edgar Award, an NAACP Image Award, a Los Angeles Times Book Prize,
and was short-listed for the UK’s Orange Prize; and the national bestseller The
Cutting Season, which was named an Honor Book by the Black Caucus of the
American Library Association, was long-listed for the Chautauqua Prize, and
won the 2013 Ernest Gaines Award for Literary Excellence. A graduate of
Northwestern University, she is on the board of directors for the Library
Foundation of Los Angeles, where she lives.