A Painted House

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A Painted House is a coming-of-age novel by John Grisham that departs from his usual legal thrillers to portray rural Arkansas farm life in the early 1950s.

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A Painted House canonical 3
A Painted House (2003 film) 1

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Predicate Object
instanceOf coming-of-age novel
novel
adaptation A Painted House self-linksurface differs
surface form: A Painted House (2003 film)
adaptationNetwork Hallmark Hall of Fame
adaptationType television film
author John Grisham
countryOfOrigin United States of America
surface form: United States
coverArtist Tony Greco
departsFromTypicalGenreOfAuthor legal thriller
depicts Mexican migrant workers
cotton farming
hill people laborers
sharecropping
firstEditionIsbn 978-0-385-50403-8
genre Southern fiction
coming-of-age fiction
historical fiction
hasDeweyDecimalClassification 813/.54
hasFormat audiobook
e-book
hardcover
paperback
hasLibraryOfCongressClassification PS3557.R5355 P35 2001
hasOclcNumber 45314020
literaryForm prose
literaryTheme class differences
coming of age
family
moral dilemmas
poverty
secrets
mainCharacter Luke Chandler
medium print
narrationType first-person narrative
narrativePerspective child narrator
notableFor departure from John Grisham's legal thrillers
originalLanguage English
pageCount 384
publicationDate 2001
publisher Doubleday
setInPeriod early 1950s
setInPlace Arkansas
setInRegion rural Arkansas
targetAudience adult readers
timeSettingEndYear 1953
timeSettingStartYear 1952

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John Grisham notableWork A Painted House
The Brethren followedBy A Painted House
A Painted House adaptation A Painted House self-linksurface differs
this entity surface form: A Painted House (2003 film)
The Summons precededBy A Painted House