A Painted House Audio Book CDs Abridged

A Painted House
Author: John Grisham
Reader: David Lansbury

In this moving story of a boy's journey from innocence to experience, young Luke lives in an unpainted Arkansas house. During the cotton harvest, he learns secrets that not only threaten the crop, but can change his family's lives forever.Unlike anything Grisham has ever done. "Captivating... prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down... a classic slice of Americana."—Publishers Weekly » Read More

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$31.95

Publish Date: 02/06/2001
ISBN: 9780553712520

Synopsis:

Racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder are seen through the eyes of a seven-year-old boy in a 1950s Southern cotton-farming community.

Book Reviews:

"The new Grisham could not be more different from his row of thrillers. There's not a lawyer in the book. No glitz. No Gatsby-style cars. Instead there is a heroic story, told about people who mostly live well below the poverty line.... It is all so real that I have to keep reminding myself that I have never been in Arkansas..."

Washington Post Book World - Noel Perrin (03/25/2001)

Author Bio:

John Grisham woke up at 5:00 every morning for three years to complete his first novel, A TIME TO KILL. Working as a lawyer and a member of Mississippi's state legislature, Grisham published his debut thriller with a small and somewhat unknown publisher, receiving only local readership in his home state. He finally burst on to the national scene with his second novel, THE FIRM, a legal thriller that sold millions of copies and stayed on the New York Times best-seller list for 47 weeks. Shortly afterward, Grisham moved to Oxford, Mississippi, where he began working on a series of new legal thrillers, including THE PELICAN BRIEF and THE CLIENT, all of which became bestsellers and were subsequently made into successful films. Having graduated from Ole Miss with a law degree in 1981, Grisham went on to base his popular thrillers on his experience as a specialist in criminal defense. His once-unknown debut, A TIME TO KILL, was made into a major motion picture in 1996.

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