A Painted House: A Novel

by John Grisham

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#1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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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  • ISBN10 038550120X
  • ISBN13 9780385501200
  • Publish Date 6 February 2001 (first published 1 February 2001)
  • Publish Status Active
  • Publish Country US
  • Publisher Transworld Publishers Ltd
  • Imprint Doubleday