A Painted House : A Novel
by Grisham, John
Published by : Arrow (India) Physical details: 388 Pages 17x11 cm | PB ISBN:9780099416159. Year: 2001| Item type | Current location | Collection | Call number | Status | Date due | Barcode |
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Fiction | Fiction | 813.54 G846P 2001 (Browse shelf) | Available | 59311 |
[This novel is] a story inspired by [the author's] 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 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. 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 novel] is a ... story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
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