Story is told through the eyes of seven-year-old Luke Chandler, the youngest in a family of cotton farmers struggling to harvest their crop and earn enough to settle their debts. Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, a Division of Random House, Inc. A Painted House, John Grisham A Painted House is a 2001 novel by American author John Grisham. 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. 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. 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. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. 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 Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless.

It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. 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.'The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. 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. This account, as written by John Grisham, paints a vivid.

It could be a 'good crop.' Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. A Painted House is a real glimpse into the life of a family making a living by farming in the 1950s. The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. A PAINTED HOUSE by John Grisham - SIGNED FIRST EDITION BOOK See all titles by John Grisham.

A painted house