Arthur Johnson Memorial Library

Grisham, John

Painted House a novel A Painted House John Grisham - 1st ed. - Garden City, New York Doubleday 2001. - 388 p. ; 25 cm.

Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie. But in the long, hot summer of his seventh year, two groups of migrant workers — and two very dangerous men — came through the Arkansas Delta to work the Chandler cotton farm. And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke’s world.

A brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions. A fatherless baby is born ... and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives — and change his family and his town forever....

038550120X (hardcover) 0375431012 (lg. print) 0385501218 (lim. ed.)

2001266464


Boys--Fiction.
Farm life--Fiction.
Rural families--Fiction.
Cotton farmers--Fiction.


Arkansas--Fiction.



PS3557.R5355 / P3 2001b

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