388 pages
English language
Published Feb. 24, 2001 by Doubleday.
5 stars
(1 review)
Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.
Subjects
- Boys -- Fiction
- Farm life -- Fiction
- Rural families -- Fiction
- Cotton farmers -- Fiction
- Arkansas -- Fiction