The Trial of Martin Ross

The Trial of Martin Ross
	First edition
Author	Alfred Kern
Country	United States
Language	English
Genre	Novel
Publisher	W.W. Norton & Company
Publication date	1971
Media type	Print (hardback)
Pages	222 pp
ISBN	0-393-08637-2
OCLC	138122
Dewey Decimal	813/.5/4
LC Class	PZ4.K4 Tr PS3561.E57
Preceded by	Made in U.S.A.

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

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[]

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

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[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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