Call me counselor

By Sara Halbert

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• Format: Hardcover
• Language: English
• ISBN: 039701239X
• ISBN13: 9780397012398
• Release Date: January 1977
• Publisher: J.B. Lippincott
• Length: 251 Pages
• Weight: 1.15 lbs.

Customer Reviews

Sara Halbert's crushing workload

Sara Halbert, a high-paced New York defense attorney, slows down the pace a little and gives Florence Stevenson an earful. Stevenson, the prolific novelist, is an ideal Boswell for Halbert's yakety-yak lifetsyle as she tells more than her share of difficult moments at the bar. Defending a murderer--how do you get your mind around that? It isn't easy, Halbert avows, but at the same time she feels that everyone is entitled to the best representation they can possible scrape by with. Even more heinous a crime for a feminist like Halbert is the ugly crime of rape, and she has defended several men on the charge that did in, say, Fatty Arbuckle. Halbert and Stevenson spin their webs of magical prose, evoking the mid-70s New York, tired and dirty and yet the most exciting place in the world, with effortless ease, and at the same time they sensitively detail a typical day in the life of a selfless advocate. If any of you have ever seen THE VERDICT, with Paul Newman, and wished to read a true life version of that story, except with the sexes changed and also if it was a true story instead of Lumet's fantasy, this is the book for you. Back in the mid 1970s, no New York publisher would touch this book, and it fell to Philadelphia's Lippincott to give it the light of day. At the time, there were whispers that high level New York capos had forbidden the publication of Halbert's tell-all expose, and that all the big NY publishers caved in, like so many pinatas filled with hot air. Lindsay Wagner wanted to do the movie version, wonder if she's still interested?