All The Right Circles
by John Russell
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Pub Date Oct 15 2019 | Archive Date Sep 19 2019
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Description
Jack Callahan is an outsider in his adopted hometown of Raleigh, North Carolina. A successful lawyer, he’s spent years trying to move in all the right circles. But with his literary mother in a sanitarium, his society marriage on the rocks, and his biggest client—Raleigh’s family-owned newspaper the Criterion—facing a hostile takeover, he’s beginning to wonder if it’s really worth it.
Step by step readers are drawn into the “non-secret secrets” of an elite that wields power founded on intricate manners and unsolved crimes. Jack’s mentor, World War II hero Hugh Symmes, is haunted by family misdeeds during the Wilmington Massacre of 1898. His client, Ward Forrest, third-generation newspaper heir, portions out liberal duty against riches amassed during the Jim Crow past. His friend, African-American judge Kai-Jana Blount, weighs the call to higher office against deals with men her civil rights crusading family had opposed.
Together they face a threat from Wall Street raider Victor Broman, Jack’s former client, who is hell-bent to acquire the Criterion for shadowy patrons. Jack tries his best to "do the hero-ing"—but questions the costs. Eventually, he takes counsel from his friend Lowry, a mysterious Native American mystic, who unveils a different path, away from all the right circles.
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Author Bio:
John Russell was born in Greensboro, North Carolina, educated in the public schools of that city, the University of North Carolina (BA), Columbia University (MA) and Harvard Law School (JD). From 1978-1982 he worked at Houghton Mifflin Company in New York, becoming an editor while working for Jonathan Galassi and Nan Talese. Some of the authors he worked with are Pat Conroy, John Jay Osborn, and Richard Ford. One of the books he edited, A VIRGIL THOMSON READER, won the National Book Critics Circle Award.
After graduating law school in 1985, he returned to North Carolina and practiced law, acted as a Visting Scholar at UNC, and became a consultant for Homeland Security, advising on bioterrorism. He joined a global law firm, K&L Gates in 2008 as head of the Life Sciences practice, and he continued in that role until retiring in 2017 to write full time.
In 1992 he published his first novel, FAVORITE SONS, which won the Sir Raleigh Award for Fiction, and was reviewed favorably in the New York Times, Los Angeles Times, Newsday, and the Charlotte Observer.
He and his wife have six children, and a grandson. They divide their time between North Carolina and Mexico.
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| EDITION | Other Format |
| ISBN | 9781644280423 |
| PRICE | $26.00 (USD) |
| PAGES | 360 |
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Nancy C, Reviewer
ALL THE RIGHT CIRCLES is wise and witty, complex and compelling, and perhaps a bit confusing at times. John Russell has written a contemporary morality tale, but left the moralizing to the reader to sort out. A range of contemporary sins are exposed and we laugh and reflect as we encounter them, but it is sometimes difficult to determine who is the saint and who the sinner.
I loved the characters and identified with their challenges:
. . . . making it in business, and society;
. . . . doing the right thing for your family---and yourself;
. . . deciding how much is enough (money, frustration, love---take your pick)
This will be a book that thrives on discussion because I suspect every reader will see it through their own, very personal, lens. And, Russell has created a strong cast of characters---surely someone for each one of us to identify with. I loved the protagonist's mother---a liberal academic driven to both charm and antagonize the safe, stolid, stuffy southern society she chose to live among.
This is a memorable story that will stick with me for quite a while---I am not sure what to think, but I am thinking ! My thanks to Netgalley for the opportunity to read and review this book in exchange for an unbiased review.
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