by Jonathan Harr · Vintage · tapa blanda · ISBN 9780679772675
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«A Civil Action» is the nonfiction book by Jonathan Harr, published by Vintage in paperback (502 pages, in English).
It reconstructs the real case of water contamination in Woburn, Massachusetts, in the 1980s: several families link their children's leukemia to industrial chemicals dumped by large companies. Lawyer Jan Schlichtmann takes on the litigation against W. R. Grace and Beatrice Foods and ends up risking his career and fortune in a long trial.
Winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award and finalist for the National Book Award; originally published in 1995 and adapted into a movie starring John Travolta and Robert Duvall.
Recommended for readers of true crime and law, as well as for those seeking real stories of environmental lawsuits against large corporations.
Jonathan Harr is an American writer, best known for the nonfiction work A Civil Action.
