{"product_id":"9780375704598","title":"The Crime of Sheila Mcgough","description":"\u003cp\u003e\"[N]o other writer tells better stories about the perpetual, the unwinnable, battle between narrative and truth.\" —\u003ci\u003eThe New York Times Book Review\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cb\u003eThe Crime of Sheila McGough\u003c\/b\u003e is Janet Malcolm's brilliant exposé of miscarriage of justice in the case of Sheila McGough, a disbarred lawyer recently released from prison. McGough had served 2 1\/2 years for collaborating with a client in his fraud, but insisted that she didn't commit any of the 14 felonies she was convicted.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eAn astonishingly persuasive condemnation of the cupidity of American law and its preference for convincing narrative rather than the truth, this is also a story with an unconventional heroine. McGough is a zealous defense lawyer duped by a white-collar con man; a woman who lives, at the age of 54, with her parents; a journalistic subject who frustrates her interviewer with her maddening literal-mindedness. Spirited, illuminating, delightfully detailed, \u003cb\u003eThe Crime of Sheila McGough\u003c\/b\u003e is both a dazzling work of journalism and a searching meditation on character and the law.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47012857512176,"sku":"9780375704598","price":15.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375704598_p0.jpg?v=1769916154","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375704598","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}