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050			_a.G75 2001 c.1
100			_aGrisham, John. _eAuthor
245			_aA painted house : _ba novel / _cJohn Grisham.
260			_aNew York : _bPenguin Random House, _cc2001.
300			_a465 pages ; _c18 cm.
365			_bPHP 47.00
520			_a"The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist-high to my father, over my head, and he and my grandfather could be heard before supper whispering words that were seldom heard. It could be a ""good crop."" Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. The narrator is a farm boy named Luke Chandler, age seven, who lives in the cotton fields with his parents and grandparents in a little house that's never been painted. The Chandlers farm eighty acres that they rent, not own, and when the cotton is ready they hire a truckload of Mexicans and a family from the Ozarks to help harvest it. For six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever."
650			_aBOYS _xFICTION.
650			_aFARM LIFE _xFICTION.
650			_aRURAL FAMILIES _xFICTION.
650			_aCOTTON FARMERS _xFICTION.
650			_aARKANSAS _xFICTION.
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