漫长的诉讼

本书是《当代国外流行小说名篇丛书》系列之一。本书记叙的是一个发生在美国波士顿小镇沃伯恩的真实故事。由于两家大化工制药公司的化工原料污染了当地的井水，当地居民尤其是儿童白血病患者的数量急剧增加，先后有多名儿童死于白血病。年轻有为的律师施利特曼代表被害家庭为此进行了一场长达七年的诉讼……事件真实，情节曲折动人。

Jonathan Harr lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College. He is a former staff writer at New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

Harr spent nine years researching and writing A Civil Action, which was published in 1995, subsequently nominated for a National Book Award, an...

Jonathan Harr lives and works in Northampton, Massachusetts, where he has taught nonfiction writing at Smith College. He is a former staff writer at New England Monthly and has written for The New Yorker and The New York Times Magazine.

Harr spent nine years researching and writing A Civil Action, which was published in 1995, subsequently nominated for a National Book Award, and awarded the National Book Critics Circle Award.,,