A Painted House
by John Grisham
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Author: John GrishamEdition: Mass Market Paperback
Audio: English (Unknown); English (Original Language); English (Published)
Published: 2001-12
ISBN: 044023722X
Number of pages: 480
Publisher: Dell
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Book Review: "Painstakingly Written"
Summary: 4 Stars
"A Painted House" is an out of the ordinary piece of work that Grisham has written for any inquisitive reader. He has provided a plethora of suspenseful events that would keep this novel in anyone's hands. This captivating story about the Chandler family, "sharecroppers" as they are called, takes place during the summer of 1952 in Black-Oak Arkansas. This seven-year-old boy, Luke Chandler, doesn't want to carry on the tradition of his poor cotton picking family. He has a dream of one day becoming a baseball player for the St. Louis Cardinals. The Chandler's mission was to find helping hands to harvest their eighty acres. They chose a group of ten migrant Mexicans and the "Hill People", known as the Spruills. The trouble started when the Spruills decided to set up camp in the farms front yard over Luke's baseball diamond. His passion in life was to play baseball and when they decided to disrupt it, the Spruills were instantly targeted as thoughtless people. Luke's father's thought of confrontation with the hired help would be out of the question because he was concerned that they would leave before the harvest was finished. His father Jesse thought only about the crop during the harvest season because it provided for their means of living. Luke was brought up in a Baptist community where truth and honesty was the only way of life. Luke begins to find himself caught up in his own curiosity. His inquisitiveness brings him to witness several incidents in which most people wouldn't encounter in a lifetime. There is one troublemaker of the Spruill bunch, named Hank, who seems to make this story very interesting. He is a large figured bully who will not commit himself to anything or anyone. If there is an easy way out, he will find it. On one occasion, you will find him at a carnival in a winner take all bare fisted brawl. Hank comes up with an ingenious plan to outwit a con artist. The description of Hank reminds me of a young boy I knew back in my childhood. Other great events happening in this tale are the mysterious painting, a murder that takes place, a boy's first view of a naked woman, and the birth of child. Conflict has been used on several occasions throughout the story, which has kept my interest of wanting to know more about the following tale of events.
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