A Painted House (Magill’s Literary Annual 1991-2005)
At a glance:
- Author: John Grisham
- First Published: 2001
- Type of Work: Novel
- Time of Work: 1952
- Setting: Arkansas
- Principal Characters: Luke Chandler, Jesse Chandler, Kathleen Chandler, Eli “Pappy” Chandler, Ruth “Gran” Chandler, Hank Spruill, Tally Spruill
- Genres: Long fiction, Domestic realism, Regional fiction
- Subjects: 1950’s, Children, North America or North Americans, United States or Americans, South or Southerners, Twentieth century, Farms, farmers, or farming, Disasters, Natural disasters, Floods, Boys, Cotton, Arkansas
- Locales: Arkansas
A Painted House is an abrupt and surprising change of pace for legal-thriller author John Grisham, who has been turning out one best-seller after another since 1991 and accumulating countless millions from book sales and movie rights. In this faux memoir inspired by his childhood, he writes about the drudgery and simple pleasures of life on a cotton farm in Arkansas. The narrator, Luke Chandler, is looking back into the past to the time when he was only seven years old and had to work all day in his grandfather’s cotton fields, hoeing weeds when the plants were growing and...
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