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Feb 3, 2004 · Beautifully evoking an extraordinary time and place, A Painted House has captivated millions of readers. Depicting aspects of family, community, trust, and faith through the eyes of a charming little boy, the book makes a memorable choice for reading groups. The questions, discussion topics, and author biography that follow are intended to enhance your reading of John Grisham's A Painted House ...
Jan 1, 2003 · A PAINTED HOUSE: The land is as unforgiving as its people. September 1952. The cotton is almost ready in the fields of Arkansas. The harvest will soon begin. Luke Chandler is a seven-year-old who lives with his family in a small, unpainted house on rented land. In the next six weeks, the Chandlers and a hired band of hill people and Mexicans ...
A forbidden love affair is brewing between two of the Chandlers’ migrant workers. Two brutal murders are committed. A fatherless baby is born. And someone has secretly begun painting the Chandlers’ dilapidated farmhouse, whose weathered clapboards make Luke’s mother look wistfully on the missed opportunities of life.
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.
Mar 16, 2010 · A Painted House. : John Grisham. Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group, Mar 16, 2010 - Fiction - 480 pages. #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came ...
Apr 20, 2010 · A Painted House is not a legal thriller. In fact, there is not a single lawyer, dead or alive, in this story. Nor are there judges, trials, courtrooms, conspiracies or nagging social issues. A Painted House is a work of fiction. It was inspired by my childhood in rural Arkansas.
- John Grisham
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