A Painted House
by Grisham, John
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- Fine
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Fine/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0712670394
- ISBN 13
- 9780712670395
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About This Item
London: Century , 2001 0712670394. Hardback. First edition. First printing. Fine/Fine. No annotations or inscriptions etc. DW is NOT price-clipped. 400 pages. 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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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 eight 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. or 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. .
Synopsis
A Painted House is a February 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grisham's first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. Set in the late summer and early fall of 1952, its story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a family of cotton farmers struggling to harvest their crop and earn enough to settle their debts.
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- Bookseller
- David Edward Hellawell (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 2677
- Title
- A Painted House
- Author
- Grisham, John
- Format/Binding
- Fine
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0712670394
- ISBN 13
- 9780712670395
- Publisher
- London: Century, 2001 0712670394
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 2001
- Pages
- 400
- Size
- 8vo - over 7¾" - 9¾" tall.
- Keywords
- 1952 Mexicans Hillbillies Cardinals Dodgers Cotton Harvest Arkansas Ozarks QSE
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