A Civil Action: A Novel
- New York: Vintage Books, 1995.
- 502 p.
- National Bestseller .
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This is a work of nonfiction. All the characters and events depicted in this book are real. Much of the material comes from my own observations over a period of eight years, beginning in the winter of 1986, and from repeated interviews with those persons directly involved. The voluminous official record, particularly some fifty thousand pages of deposition and trial transcripts, provided another vital source. The reader can find further information in A Note on Sources and Acknowledgments at the end of the narrative. Jonathan Harr.