![]() ![]() Shortly after their arrival, boastful and highly aggressive Hank Spruill, and a Mexican called Cowboy, begin making things worse for the Chandlers. He wants to be a baseball player and play for the Cardinals.Īt the time of harvest, the Chandlers hire the Spruill family and ten Mexicans to pick cotton in their farm. Unlike his family tradition, Luke does not want to be a farmer. His nineteen-year-old uncle, Ricky has gone to Korea to fight in a war. Luke Chandler, the seven-year-old narrator of the story, lives in an unpainted house with his parents and grandparents. It revolves around the Chandler family who are cotton farmers. The story is fictionalized in rural Arkansas in the year 1952. ![]() Released in 2001, the novel “A Painted House” is quite different from John Grisham’s usual legal thrillers. However, I was absorbed in it after reading only the first chapter. A farm life story wouldn’t interest me, I had thought. ![]()
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