- Boys, Cotton farmers, Migrant labor, Nineteen fifties
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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- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- effortlessdemanding
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- Author
- John Grisham
- First published
- 2000
- Pages
- 445
- Publisher
- Gardners Books, Oscar Mondadori, Doubleday
- Editions
- 59
- Language
- Polish, Portuguese, Russian, English
- ISBN
- 9781856867443
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“The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day.”
Long before his name became synonymous with the modern legal thriller, he was working 60-70 hours a week at a small Southaven, Mississippi, law practice, squeezing in time before going to the office and during courtroom recesses to work on his hobby—writing his first novel. Born on February 8, 1955 in Jonesboro, Arkansas, to a construction worker and a homemaker, John Grisham as a child dreamed of being a professional baseball player. Realizing he didn’t have the right stuff for a pro career, he shifted gears and majored in accounting at Mississippi State University. After graduating from law school at Ole Miss in 1981, he went on to practice law for nearly a decade in Southaven, specializin
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