A Painted House - Brossura

Grisham, John

Brossura

ISBN 10: 0712670394 ISBN 13: 9780712670395

Casa editrice: Pimlico, 2001

Riassunto

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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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 Chandlers farm eight 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. or 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.

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Physical description; 388 p. ; 24 cm. Subjects; Boys - Arkansas - Fiction. Farm life - Arkansas - Fiction. Cotton farmers - Arkansas - Fiction.

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• Editore: Pimlico
• Data di pubblicazione: 2001
• ISBN 10: 0712670394
• ISBN 13: 9780712670395
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero edizione: 1
• Numero di pagine: 400