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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. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes, each other. 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. 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 weather is a powerful force in A PAINTED HOUSE floods, heat, hail, and tornadoes all add suspense to the novel. It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. In so doing, we consistently inspect and grade each book using professional. 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. VJ Books provides the finest in signed first editions and collectible books.

The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. Inspired by his childhood in Arkansas, it is Grishams first major work outside the legal thriller genre in which he established himself. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. Similar books like The Brethren / A Painted House include The Firm / The Partner / The Pelican Brief / The Rainmaker / A Time to Kill, Personal, John Grisham: The Chamber / The Client / The Pelican Brief / A Time To Kill, The Great Train Robbery / The Andromeda Strain, The Testament / A Time To Kill. A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham.

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