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003			OCoLC
005			20180129174739.0
008			010312r20012001nyu 000 1 eng
010			_a 2001266464
020			_a038550120X (hardcover)
020			_a9780385501200 (hardcover)
020			_a0375431012 (lg. print)
020			_a9780375431012 (lg. print)
020			_a0385501218 (lim. ed.)
020			_a9780385501217 (lim. ed.)
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050	0	0	_aPS3557.R5355 _bP3 2001b
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100	1		_92262 _aGrisham, John.
245	1	2	_aA painted house : _ba novel /
250			_a1st ed.
260			_aNew York : _bDoubleday, _c2001.
300			_a388 p. ; _c25 cm.
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 from author 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 finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever. This is a moving story of one boy's journey from innocence to experience.
530			_aAlso issued online.
650		0	_aBoys _vFiction. _9107
650		0	_aFarm life _vFiction. _98816
650		0	_aRural families _vFiction. _98815
650		0	_aCotton farmers _vFiction. _930028
650		0	_aBildungsromans. _2gsafd _929441
651		0	_aArkansas _vFiction. _96800
655		7	_aDomestic fiction. _2lcsh _979
655		7	_aBildungsromans. _2gsafd _929441
856	4	2	_3Contributor biographical information _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/bios/random053/2001266464.html
856	4	1	_3Sample text _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/samples/random042/2001266464.html
856	4	2	_3Publisher description _uhttp://www.loc.gov/catdir/description/random044/2001266464.html
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