Skip to Main Content (Press Enter)

A Painted House

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

A Novel

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham

By John Grisham
Read by David Lansbury

By John Grisham
Read by David Lansbury

By John Grisham
Read by David Lansbury

By John Grisham
Read by David Lansbury

Best Seller
Paperback $18.00

Feb 03, 2004 | ISBN 9780385337939

Mass Market Paperback $9.99

Feb 28, 2012 | ISBN 9780345532046

Hardcover $35.00

Feb 06, 2001 | ISBN 9780385501200

Ebook $9.99

Mar 16, 2010 | ISBN 9780307576040

Audiobook Download $24.95

Feb 06, 2001 | 725 Minutes

Audiobook Download $13.95

Feb 06, 2001 | 312 Minutes

All Formats
+
    A Painted House by John Grisham
    Audiobook Download
    Feb 06, 2001 | ISBN 9780553753592 | 725 Minutes

    Buy from Other Retailers:

    See All Formats (5) +

    Paperback (2)
    +

    • Paperback $18.00

      Feb 03, 2004 | ISBN 9780385337939

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    • Mass Market Paperback $9.99

      Feb 28, 2012 | ISBN 9780345532046

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Hardcover
    +

    • Hardcover $35.00

      Feb 06, 2001 | ISBN 9780385501200

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Ebook
    +

    • Ebook

      Mar 16, 2010 | ISBN 9780307576040

      Buy from Other Retailers:

    Audio (2)
    –

    Buy the Audiobook Download:

    About A Painted House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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….

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

    About A Painted House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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….

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

    About A Painted House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BEST SELLER • 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….

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

    About A Painted House

    #1 NEW YORK TIMES BESTSELLER • 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….

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

    About A Painted House

    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….

    Don’t miss John Grisham’s new book,     THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon!

    About A Painted House

    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 the new novel from 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.

    A Painted House is a moving story of one boy’s journey from innocence to experience.

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Read An Excerpt

    Reading Guide

    Listen to a sample from A Painted House

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    Also by John Grisham

    The Exchange
    Sparring Partners
    The Boys from Biloxi
    The Judge's List
    Sooley
    See all books by John Grisham

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    About John Grisham

    John Grisham is the author of thirty novels, one work of nonfiction, a collection of stories, and six novels for young readers.

    Product Details

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Paperback | $18.00
    Published by Anchor
    Feb 03, 2004 | 384 Pages | 5-1/4 x 8 | ISBN 9780385337939

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Mass Market Paperback | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Feb 28, 2012 | 480 Pages | 4-3/16 x 7-1/2 | ISBN 9780345532046

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Hardcover | $35.00
    Published by Doubleday
    Feb 06, 2001 | 400 Pages | 6-1/8 x 9-1/4 | ISBN 9780385501200

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction

    Ebook | $9.99
    Published by Anchor
    Mar 16, 2010 | 480 Pages | ISBN 9780307576040

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $24.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 06, 2001 | 725 Minutes | ISBN 9780553753592

    Category: Suspense & Thriller | Literary Fiction | Audiobooks

    Audiobook Download | $13.95
    Published by Random House Audio
    Feb 06, 2001 | 312 Minutes | ISBN 9780553753578

    Praise

    “John Grisham is about as good a storyteller as we’ve got.”—The New York Times Book Review

    “The kind of book you read slowly because you don’t want it to end … John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm…. Never let it be said this man doesn’t know how to spin a good yarn.”—Entertainment Weekly

    “Characters that no reader will forget. .. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down … and a drop-dead evocation of a time and place that mark this novel as a classic slice of Americana.”—Publishers Weekly

    “Some of the finest dialogue of his career … Every detail rings clear and true, and nothing is wasted.”—Seattle Times


    Read all of John Grisham’s #1 New York Times bestsellers:

    The Brethren
    The Testament
    The Street Lawyer
    The Partner
    The Runaway Jury
    The Rainmaker
    The Chamber
    The Client
    The Pelican Brief
    The Firm
    A Time to Kill

    Available from Dell


    Coming soon!

    The Summons

    The new novel by John Grisham

    Available from Doubleday

    Looking for More Great Reads?
    21 Books You’ve Been Meaning to Read
    Get the latest updates about John Grisham
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    And go from well-read to best read with book recs, deals and more in your inbox every week.
    By clicking SIGN UP, I acknowledge that I have read and agree to Penguin Random House’s Privacy Policy and Terms of Use and understand that Penguin Random House collects certain categories of personal information for the purposes listed in that policy, discloses, sells, or shares certain personal information and retains personal information in accordance with the policy. You can opt-out of the sale or sharing of personal information anytime.
    Dismiss
    Thanks!
    Something awesome is on its way.
    Back to Top

    Visit other sites in the Penguin Random House Network

    Raise kids who love to read

    Raise kids who love to read

    Today's Top Books

    Want to know what people are actually reading right now?

     An online magazine for today’s home cook

    An online magazine for today’s home cook