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A CIVIL ACTION.
de Harr, Jonathan
- Usado
- First
- Estado
- Very good in wrappers (some staining to edges of textblock.)
- Librería
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New York:: Random House,, 1995.. First edition -. Very good in wrappers (some staining to edges of textblock.). Advance Reading Copy (trade paperback format. ) Nonfiction account of a legal case in Massachusetts involving toxins from a nearby factory polluting the groundwater and drinking water, and causing a cluster of leukemia cases in the small town involved. The book went into numerous printings, being re-released after an initial slow response, and was made into a very good movie starring John Travolta. National Book Award finalist and National Book Critics Circle Award. 492 pp.
Sinopsis
For the film starring John Travolta, see A Civil Action (film) A Civil Action is a 1996 non-fiction novel by Jonathan Harr depicting the real-life water contamination case in Woburn, Massachusetts in the 1980s. The book became a best-seller and won the National Book Critics Circle Award for nonfiction. The case is Anderson v. Cryovac. The first reported decision in the case is at 96 F.R.D. 431 (denial of defendants' motion to dismiss).
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- Inventario del vendedor #
- 55415
- Título
- A CIVIL ACTION.
- Autor
- Harr, Jonathan
- Formato/Encuadernación
- First edition -
- Estado del libro
- Usado - Very good in wrappers (some staining to edges of textblock.)
- Editorial
- Random House,
- Lugar de publicación
- New York:
- Fecha de publicación
- 1995.
- Palabras clave
- pollution, legal case, movie tie-in, arc, Nationall Book Critics Circle Award., uncorrected proof,
- Catálogos del vendedor
- Miscellaneous nonfiction;
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