A Painted House

a novel

by

465 pages

English language

Published April 15, 2002 by Dell.

ISBN:
978-0-440-23722-8
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OCLC Number:
48665467

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Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.

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Subjects

  • Cotton farmers -- Arkansas -- Fiction
  • Nineteen fifties -- Fiction
  • Boys -- Arkansas -- Fiction
  • Migrant labor -- Arkansas -- Fiction