Book, January 1st, 2001
The master of the legal thriller takes a slow walk through an Arkansas childhood.
"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 two weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. The cotton, however, was waist high to my father, almost 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.'"
So begins A Painted House, John Grisham's new genre-busting novel, serialized throughout the past year in The Ox...
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