A Painted House

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Title: A Painted House
Author: John Grisham
Publisher: Dell Publishing
Published Date: 2002
Pages: 465
Format: Paperback Pocket Book
Livros em Inglês
Literatura > Thriller
ISBN 10: 044023722X
ISBN 13: 9780440237228

Synopsis
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 Lukes 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....

Review
"Grisham tells his story at a languid pace but, like the good suspense writer that he is, keeps subtly building the tension. His portrayal of a young boy's harsh coming of age is sensitively done.... His transition out of the suspense genre is seamless and a pleasant surprise." -- Chris Petrakos -- Chicago Tribune

"Far from tapping into anything real, the author seems intent on delivering an upright and safely predictable past in which his readers can take comfort." -- Janet Maslin -- New York Times

"Unlike his 11 previous books, which Mr. Grisham says were designed to keep the reader flipping pages, this is a leisurely tale, offering an affectionate portrait of a lost era." -- Wall Street Journal

"[W]hat A PAINTED HOUSE resembles most strongly is what Grisham apparently wanted it not to be, a thriller." -- Dennis Loy Johnson -- San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Once again, Grisham has given us memorable characters and woven this fast-moving novel with the skill readers have come to expect. But by mining deeper into his own past and conscience, he's written a book that seems more personal, emotional and realistic in an artistic sense than previous work. This may be Grisham's best writing to date." -- Houston Chronicle