A Painted House (John Grisham)
| Author | : | |
| Rating | : | 4.40 (804 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0553712527 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 245 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 2014-11-16 |
| Language | : | English |
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As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to witness. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. Still, such matters ultimately take a back seat in A Painted House to the author's evocation of time and place. Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. Whether Grisham will continue along these lines, or revert to the judicial shark tank for
Utah Susie said Grisham's best.. I've always thought of John Grisham as a fine storyteller, but not as fine a writer as Scott Turow. Well, this is a fine, well-written slice of life novel. The setting and era are evocative and educational, and the characters, as seen through the eyes of a particularly observant and wise 7-year old, are totally engaging. The story is compelling, especially as it informs the struggles of rural Southerners as they move literally and figuratively into the late "Grisham's best." according to Utah Susie. I've always thought of John Grisham as a fine storyteller, but not as fine a writer as Scott Turow. Well, this is a fine, well-written slice of life novel. The setting and era are evocative and educational, and the characters, as seen through the eyes of a particularly observant and wise 7-year old, are totally engaging. The story is compelling, especially as it informs the struggles of rural Southerners as they move literally and figuratively into the late 20th century. Highly recommended.. 0th century. Highly recommended.. Teriffic book for anyone interested in the life on an Arkansas cotton farm in the 1950's through the 1960's very realistic This book was recommended to my by my therapist because it is written about life on a northeast Arkansas cotton farm in the 1950's I grew up near the area featured in the book. although my experiences living on a cotton farm in northeast Arkansas were in the mid to late 1960's but I could easily relate to the characters and activities in the book. I have been to Black Oak Arkansas many times but do not recall it being nothing more than a junction of 2 state highways with very few buildings, not what one would con. "but is a reminder of the good and bad lost when rural Americans looked toward the" according to goodtogo. This is a moving and most enjoyable book. In Grisham style, it’s not sentimental, but is a reminder of the good and bad lost when rural Americans looked toward the promise of paychecks earned in large cities. “A Painted House” is set during an era of American family farms, and communities serving the weekly and seasonal necessities of rural life. In the early 1950’s the Chandler farm was in debt for crop loans and supplies needed for planting and harvest. Loans had to be repaid from crop p
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.. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. 5 hrs.performance by David LansburyThe hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. 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 Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. Five CDs, approx. 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 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. 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, and fatigue, and, sometimes, each other