Instruct: Classify Amazon reviews into positive or negative sentiment
Query: Superb account of what the practice of law really is like.

I read this book first in 1957 as a course assignment. I found it on my mother's bookshelves and, knowing that she read principally for enjoyment, I wondered why the professor had assigned it. I found it on first reading a fascinating account of a trial and of small town life, and a welcome change from the dry texts we had been studying. Later, when I came to practice law in a small town myself, I realized that Cozzens has captured better than any author I ever have read the "taste" of real law practice. I have read it several times and recommend it to any literate person.