The Trial of Martin Ross

The Trial of Martin Ross is a novel by the American writer Alfred Kern.[1]

The Trial of Martin Ross
First edition
AuthorAlfred Kern
CountryUnited States
LanguageEnglish
GenreNovel
PublisherW.W. Norton & Company
Publication date
1971
Media typePrint (hardback)
Pages222 pp
ISBN0-393-08637-2
OCLC138122
813/.5/4
LC ClassPZ4.K4 Tr PS3561.E57
Preceded byMade in U.S.A. 

It is set in the late 1960s over Thanksgiving weekend in Buchanan, Pennsylvania (a fictionalized Meadville, north of Pittsburgh). Martin Ross and his wife Janet celebrate the holiday alone and for the first time without their three children, now grown. As a storm dumps a heavy snow, Ross, a liberal lawyer in a conservative town, reads the proofs of his son’s first novel, set in a fictionalized Buchanan. Quickly he realizes the novel is an indictment of himself and his life’s work, and he struggles to defend himself to his son across the generational chasm.[2]

References

  1. "Alfred Kern, Contemporary Authors Online, Detroit: Thomson Gale, 2002". Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)
  2. "The Trial of Martin Ross, Publishers Weekly, 1971". Cite magazine requires |magazine= (help)


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