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Presumed Innocent by Scott Turow, is often proclaimed as a breakthrough novel in the genre of courtroom dramas or mysteries. Published in 1987, it was the first novel by Turow, a graduate of Harvard Law School, and it does venture well outside the action-driven plotting of much genre fiction. Several of Turow's later works were filmed, as was this book, and he has become one of America's most commercially successful authors. Novels that are written in recognizable genres such as adventure, romance, mystery, or fantasy often do not place great emphasis on character development, which is the hallmark of so-called literary fiction. Instead, genre novels tend to concentrate on the development and rapid-paced movement of the plot and on creating a vivid atmosphere. When a novel that fits into a genre also presents highly developed and believable characters, it is liable to be praised as a breakthrough book as was...
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