A Painted House | John Grisham | A Painted House by John Grisham

A Painted House | John Grisham | "A PAINTED HOUSE" BY JOHN GRISHAM

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A Painted House

	A Painted House John Grisham Delta, 2004 - 384 pages average customer review:based on 1067 reviews view larger image
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highly recommended

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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A Painted House by John Grisham

A Painted House is a sweet story narrated by a 7 year old boy who gets in enough trouble to keep the reader's attention. It is one of those beautiful stories that should go on forever. A quick read in Grisham's spellbinding style.

"A PAINTED HOUSE" BY JOHN GRISHAM

A GREAT BOOK!! DIFFERENT FROM OTHER J. GRISHAM BOOKS THAT I HAVE READ,
BUT I LOVED IT. 5 STAR REVIEW!!

Loved it

This is one of my most favorite books of all time. I havent read it in years and am thinking of reading it again. Such a wonderful story.

Grisham shines in non-lawyer tome

John Grisham has learned how to end a book - although it's not always a happy ending or the one we'd like. "A Painted House" is a wonderful slice-of-life, coming of age (even at 7 years old) story. Great descriptive writing, wonderful imagery. A good read from start to finish.

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A nice change of pace from the courtroom stuff but...

I enjoyed the change of pace from Grisham's normal books, but like a lot of other reviewers, I didn't think it was believable that Luke was a 7-year-old, and that it ended sort of abruptly with seemingly no resolution of anything. The story seemed to be building up to a climax that never happened. While I did enjoy reading about life in rural Arkansas in the '50s, I just felt so let down at the end. I also thought that Tally, the teenage daughter of the Spruills, got a little too much enjoyment out of little Luke watching her bathe. Comments such as "You liked that didn't you?" and "Maybe I'll let you watch me again." seemed a bit disturbing for a 17-year-old girl to be saying to a 7-year-old boy.

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