A Painted House

4.1 avg 1263 votes 60 reviews 1096 want to read

About this book

Using his own childhood for inspiration (and leaving the lawyers behind), bestselling author John Grisham sets A Painted House in 1950s rural Arkansas. During harvest time, together with hired Mexicans and hill people, seven-year-old Luke Chandler picks cotton on his family's rented 80 acres. But racial tension, a forbidden love affair, and murder cause Luke to grow up before he's ready.

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4.1/5 · 1263 readers · 462 pages · ≈ 8 h 33 m · Moderate

How long does it take to read A Painted House?

About ≈ 8 h 33 m — 462 pages, assuming roughly 250 words per page at 225 words per minute.Typical novel≈ 5 h 56 mA Painted House~8 h 33 m

How many pages is A Painted House?

462 pages in its most-read edition.Typical novel320A Painted House462

What genre is A Painted House?

It sits on the Fiction shelves.

Is A Painted House in the public domain?

No — it is still under copyright.

Who wrote A Painted House?

John Grisham.

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