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ZIN Product Number: 10154894
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Audio
Edition: Unabridged, 8 Cassettes
Publisher: Bantam Doubleday Dell Audio Publishing, Inc.
ISBN: 0553502751
Average Reader Review:   (Based on 5 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher
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 Chandlersfarm 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.
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 | | | | | Number of Reviews: 5 Average Rating:
An excellent book
-- Beth, A student at Freeman Highschool, October 2, 2002
Also Recommended: To Kill A Mockingbird- Harper Lee Pet Cemetery-Stephen King Christine-Stephen King
Not very exciting!
-- German exchange student, October 2, 2002
Also Recommended: The Firm, The Client, The Beach ( I don't know the author of this book )
This is a really great book.
-- Lindsay, October 2, 2002
Also Recommended: I also recommend the books Night Sin and Guilty As Sin.
Good Book
-- Senior Girl, October 2, 2002
Also Recommended: Stranger With My Face, Don't Look Behind You, and Gallows Hill all by Lois Duncan
A Great Book
-- Stephanie, a high school senior, October 2, 2002
Also Recommended: A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, and The Face at the Edge.
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