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Original Title:	A Painted House
ISBN:	0385337930 (ISBN13: 9780385337939)
Edition Language:	English
Characters:	Luke
Setting:	Arkansas(United States)
Literary Awards:	Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek Nominee (2001)

A Painted House

John Grisham

Paperback | Pages: 384 pages

Rating: 3.7 | 74555 Users | 3996 Reviews

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Title	:	A Painted House
Author	:	John Grisham
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Anniversary Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 384 pages
Published	:	February 3rd 2004 by Bantam (first published March 2001)
Categories	:	Fiction. Mystery

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"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 he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.

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I read one review stating that the title of this book should have been "Watching Paint Dry". While it's not as exciting and riveting as Grisham's other works, and it took me about six chapters to get into the story, it was still an enjoyable book.Set in 1952 Arkansas, 7-year-old Luke Chandler is forced to grow up quickly when he becomes exposed to several adult situations. It seems as though everyone in the story has a secret to keep and they all manage to confide in Luke. The yearly ritual of

I seldom give five stars; they must be earned by the author's offerings. This book supplied all the necessary plot ingredients to satisfy the curiosities of this avid, mature reader. (No desire to see the movie, it could not possibly do this story justice.) Its not for the squeamish or sheltered reading audience. A realistic slice of life, poor/destitute Arkansas folks during the early Fifties, well-described and believable.

This was such a horrible book! It had potential - I kept thinking the story would come around but once I got 2/3 way through the book, I knew there was no room left for a story. I finished it anyway and was really disappointed. There is absolutely NO story. Nothing. We are introduced to this family and the other characters for no reason. It's almost like the author had great ideas for characters but couldn't come up with a story line.If you've never read Grisham and this is your first book -

The audiobook narrator makes this better than my own reading would be.I am biased against 1st person point-of-view (thanks to the New Adult genre). But this book reminds me how great 1st person can be. And I cant imagine this story done any other way. This is 1st person Luke. He is seven-years-old. He is always sneaking around and listening to things and seeing things hes not supposed to. It was exciting. And then hes got all these secrets. He doesnt want to keep secrets but he has to. I enjoyed

For being from John Grisham, this was such a great book! For a long time I've enjoyed his legal thrillers, but after a while I suspected each book would be exactly the same as the last with the only difference being the plot. Granted that's one of the reasons I liked his novels, because I could trust they would be consistently good. When this book first came out I couldn't wait to read it and I fell in love with his ability to tell a heartfelt, meaningful story having nothing to do with law. I

Inspired by his own childhood in Arkansas, A Painted House is John Grisham'S first major work outside the legal thriller genre, the genre for which he is so well known.Grishams trademark is suspense. If this isnt a legal thriller, does the book at least have suspense? Yes, but only to the extent you can see the events of the summer of 1952 through Lukes eyes. He is the central protagonist. He is seven, and it is he telling the story. In my view, Grisham captures remarkably well the world of a

Cotton farming in rural Arkansas doesn't seem like a likely subject for a John Grisham book.But I have enjoyed almost all his books more,when he has moved away from the courtroom.In the legal thrillers,he seems to repeat himself quite often.Here,it is a fresh theme. It starts rather slowly,but then the tempo picks up.It is about poverty,struggle and adversity,but as would be apt for a thriller writer,has its share of crime too.As usual for Grisham books,it goes on for a bit too long.A hundred