His use of minor characters, both onscreen and off-screen, is masterful. One can hear a hissing, coiled snake, feel the chill blast of a tornado's fury and smell the stench of water-soaked cotton balls.

Urn:lcp:paintedhouse00:lcpdf:a6299655-9c24-4b9d-9196-e4cd62a22bb5 A PAINTED HOUSE is set apart from ordinary coming-of-age stories by Grisham's artful use of sensory details. 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.Ī Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience, drawn from the personal experience of legendary legal thriller author John Grisham.Access-restricted-item true Addeddate 18:51:02 Bookplateleaf 0006 Boxid IA1121416 Camera Canon EOS 5D Mark II City New York, NY Donor 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.įor six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. In rural Arkansas, seven-year-old farm boy Luke Chandler lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. 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.

The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. A Painted House: A Novel Kindle Edition by John Grisham (Author) Format: Kindle Edition 8,216 ratings See all formats and editions Kindle 9.99 Read with Our Free App Audiobook 0.00 Free with your Audible trial 1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day.

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