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A Painted House

By: John Grisham
Narrated by: David Lansbury
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Summary

 The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a "good crop."

Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it.

For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and, sometimes, each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.

A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

(P)2001 Random House, LLC©2001 Belfry Holdings, Inc Coming of Age Crime Thrillers Fiction Genre Fiction Small Town & Rural Thriller & Suspense
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All through the eyes of a small boy and the secrets he had to keep. Brilliant. My first Grisham novel. Will I like the others? They look different. Took a while to adjust to the narrator. All in all he did a good job though. Highly recommended.

Beautiful book. A peek at 1950 s farming life USA

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A beautiful book, painting a vivid picture of a way of life in 1950s Arkansas. There is a murder, but this is a very un-Grisham book.

Perfect

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Such a random topic, not my usual but just so well written that it just draws you in. A master at work

Beautiful book; so well written

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John Grisham made this account of rural life in the 1950s in Arkansas as gripping as his other novels. A good story and an education in other lives in other times

A vivid account

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Story is very well written and read, quite engaging but at the same time does not feel overwhelming.

Story it self is quite interesting and feels believable, emotions of the narrator who is a 7 year old boy are well expressed and translated to make it relevant to us the readers.

Do recommend!

Nice easy but engaging

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