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A Painted House by John Grisham

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A Painted House

A Novel

John Grisham

JG Publishing · Print & ebook · February 3, 2004

Reading lane: Black Mystery

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town’s secrets, “John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm ” ( Entertainment Weekly ). “You can’t help thinking of other coming-of-age novels from the South: Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird .”— The New York Times Book Review Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie.

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Who It's For

Good for readers interested in coming-of-age stories set in the American SouthGood for fans of literary fiction with mystery and family secrets

Book Details

Authors
John Grisham
Publisher
JG Publishing
Published
February 3, 2004
Format
Print & ebook
Theme
Black Mystery · Crime Fiction
Reading lane
Black Mystery

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Publisher Categories

  • Literary Fiction

  • Suspense

  • Coming-of-Age

About This Book

#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town’s secrets, “John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm ” ( Entertainment Weekly ). “You can’t help thinking of other coming-of-age novels from the South: Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird .”— The New York Times Book Review Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single...

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • In a tense, poignant novel of a boy awakening to his small town’s secrets, “John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm ” ( Entertainment Weekly ). “You can’t help thinking of other coming-of-age novels from the South: Huckleberry Finn or To Kill a Mockingbird .”— The New York Times Book Review 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.

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