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Amazon.com Review Ever since he published The Firm in 1991, John Grisham has remained the undisputed champ of the legal thriller. With A Painted House , however, he strikes out in a new direction. As the author is quick to note, this novel includes "not a single lawyer, dead or alive," and readers will search in vain for the kind of lowlife machinations that have been his stock-in-trade. Instead, Grisham has delivered a quieter, more contemplative story, set in rural Arkansas in 1952. It's harvest time on the Chandler farm, and the family has hired a crew of migrant Mexicans and "hill people" to pick 80 acres of cotton. A certain camaraderie pervades this bucolic dream team. But it's backbreaking work, particularly for the 7-year-old narrator, Luke: "I would pick cotton, tearing the fluffy bolls from the stalks at a steady pace, stuffing them into the heavy sack, afraid to look down the row and be reminded of how endless it was, afraid to slow down because someone would notice." What's more, tensions begin to simmer between the Mexicans and the hill people, one of whom has a penchant for bare-knuckles brawling. This leads to a brutal murder, which young Luke has the bad luck to

Who reads A Painted House : A Novel?

Author

Grisham, John

Publisher

Bantam Doubleday Dell Books for Young Readers

Published

2001

Language

EN

ISBN

9780385501217

Category

work of fiction

Subjects

Fiction, Thriller, Literary Fiction

Rating

3.67 / 5 (60,826 ratings)

Updated

2026-03-14