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Painted House : A Novel by John Grisham (2001, Hardcover)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherKnopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10038550120X
ISBN-139780385501200
eBay Product ID (ePID)18038294624
Product Key Features
Book TitlePainted House : a Novel
Number of Pages400 Pages
LanguageEnglish
Publication Year2001
TopicThrillers / Suspense, Literary, Coming of Age, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorJohn Grisham
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.2 in
Item Weight23.6 Oz
Item Length9.5 in
Item Width6.4 in
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceTrade
LCCN2001-266464
Reviews"John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got."- The New York Times Book Review "The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end ... John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm .... Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn."- Entertainment Weekly "Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down ... and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana."- Publishers Weekly "Some of the finest dialogue of his career ... Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted."- Seattle Times Read all of John Grisham's #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Brethren The Testament The Street Lawyer The Partner The Runaway Jury The Rainmaker The Chamber The Client The Pelican Brief The Firm A Time to Kill Available from Dell Coming soon! The Summons The new novel by John Grisham Available from Doubleday From the Paperback edition., "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got."- The New York Times Book Review "The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end ... John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm .... Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn."- Entertainment Weekly "Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down ... and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana."- Publishers Weekly "Some of the finest dialogue of his career ... Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted."- Seattle Times Read all of John Grisham's #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Brethren The Testament The Street Lawyer The Partner The Runaway Jury The Rainmaker The Chamber The Client The Pelican Brief The Firm A Time to Kill Available from Dell Coming soon! The Summons The new novel by John Grisham Available from Doubleday, "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got."-- The New York Times Book Review "The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end ... John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm .... Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn."-- Entertainment Weekly "Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down ... and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana."-- Publishers Weekly "Some of the finest dialogue of his career ... Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted."-- Seattle Times Read all of John Grisham's #1 New York Times bestsellers: The Brethren The Testament The Street Lawyer The Partner The Runaway Jury The Rainmaker The Chamber The Client The Pelican Brief The Firm A Time to Kill Available from Dell Coming soon! The Summons The new novel by John Grisham Available from Doubleday From the Paperback edition., "John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we've got."-The New York Times Book Review "The kind of book you read slowly because you don't want it to end ... John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers withThe Firm.... Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn."-Entertainment Weekly "Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down ... and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana."-Publishers Weekly "Some of the finest dialogue of his career ... Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted."-Seattle Times Read all of John Grisham's #1New York Timesbestsellers: The Brethren The Testament The Street Lawyer The Partner The Runaway Jury The Rainmaker The Chamber The Client The Pelican Brief The Firm A Time to Kill Available from Dell Coming soon! The Summons The new novel by John Grisham Available from Doubleday From the Paperback edition.
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Synopsis#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER - Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers -- and two very dangerous men -- came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives -- and change his family and his town forever.... Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!, #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER * Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers -- and two very dangerous men -- came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world. A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives -- and change his family and his town forever.... Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!, 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 finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. A Painted House is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience. On-sale February 6, 2001.
LC Classification NumberPS3557.R5355P3 2001b
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