Funeral Wars

Funeral Wars
ISBN-10
0571208509
ISBN-13
9780571208500
Category
African American lawyers
Pages
87
Language
English
Published
2001
Author
Jonathan Harr

Description

'I'm just a country boy, ' says Willie Gary when he addresses a jury. 'If I just talk in plain, ordinary talk, you won't hold that against me, will you?' The son of migrant corn-pickers, Gary is one of America's most successful lawyers: diamond-encrusted Rolex, private Gulfstream jet. In Funeral Wars, Jonathan Harr follows Gary's most notorious case, a contract dispute between rival funeral parlours. This is the bizarre story of how Gary turns that dispute into a multi-million-dollar morality play. Above all, though, it is his story, that of a simple Southern boy whose life has taken on the contours of legend

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