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A painted house [electronic resource] / John Grisham.

Grisham, John. (Author). Lansbury, David. (Added Author). OverDrive, Inc. (Added Author).

Summary:

A moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9781415947555 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 1415947554 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 9780553753592 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • ISBN: 0553753592 (sound recording : OverDrive Audio Book)
  • Publisher: New York : Books on Tape, 2007.

Content descriptions

General Note:
Downloadable audio file.
Title from: Title details screen.
Unabridged.
Duration: 12:04:10.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by David Lansbury.
System Details Note:
Requires OverDrive Media Console (file size: 173448 KB).
Mode of access: World Wide Web.
Subject: Boys > Arkansas > Fiction.
Cotton growing > Arkansas > Fiction.
Tenant farmers > Arkansas > Fiction.
Mexican American migrant agricultural laborers > Arkansas > Fiction.
Migrant agricultural laborers > Ozark Mountains > Fiction.
Children's secrets > Fiction.
Genre: Mystery fiction.
Bildungsromans.
Audiobooks.

  • Baker & Taylor
    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.
  • EBSCOhost
    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....From the Paperback edition.
  • Findaway World Llc
    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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  • Random House, Inc.
    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....


    From the Paperback edition.

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