A Painted House - Book Review

A Painted House is a novel by American writer John Grisham.

Luke Chandler, a child of seven years, tells the epic story of an America made up of peasant suffering and charms: the plantations, the laborers, the sunsets of Arkansas in 1952.

But by far the one that looks like an idyllic rural scene, turns out to be, close up, a place a thousand tensions: the violence of the workers, the struggle for survival, the dark fear of losing the crop, and a child who desperately clings to his innocence. It will however be forced to grow up quickly overwhelmed by the mysterious events that will forever change the fate of his family.

It is unusual for a universe of Grisham readers, so far from the world of exorbitant fees by the lawyers and the limousines of the previous books. Yet even this is a novel relentless, leaving no respite.Until - as in the verdict of a jury - and appease someone off old hatreds. Beginning with ancient gesture, to paint the facade of his house.

From the advance:
"And I caught cotton, tearing the soft capsules from plants without stopping, without the courage to extend his eyes and remember what the row was interminable, without the courage to slow down, because someone might notice it. I would have skinned fingers, I would have burned my neck, I would have destroyed my back. "

Here is the sorrow of Luke Chandler, a child of seven years which, like lightning, enters our lives and tells us America peasant suffering and charms - the plantations, the laborers, the sunsets of Arkansas in 1952.But what looks like a scene from afar turns out to be rural, close up, a place of a thousand tensions.

The violence of the laborers, the dark fear of losing the crop, the frantic struggle of a child who clings to his innocence become the antimondo of everything that Grisham had accustomed us, with his lawyers and his exorbitant fees from limousines.

There is no truce in this novel until - as in the verdict of a jury - and someone will subside, with ancient gesture, to paint the facade of his house.

The laborers of the mountains and the Mexicans arrived on the same day. Era un mercoledì dell'inizio di Settembre 1952. It was a Wednesday, the beginning of September 1952.With three weeks remaining, the Cardinals were five games under and over the Dodgers season seemed lost. Cotton taller than me, came to the waist of my father that his grandfather before supper whispering words that I heard often. Bears would be "a good harvest."

"A Painted House" by John Grisham is one of his usual legal thriller.

It seems an homage to what was the true American dream! Non quello di arricchirsi presto e senza sforzo! Not to get rich quickly and effortlessly! But to achieve their well-being and independence through hard work, commitment, patience, dedication, love for his own things and pride for your results ...

 Which, moreover, had many generations of pioneers, making America the cornucopia which had now become its "fifty."
John Grisham said that the novel is fictional, because the dates do not coincide, in '52 the writer was not even born, yet carefully read his biography one can not but notice a striking number of similarities with the plot and with scenarios in which he grew up, I think that somehow John Grisham wanted to dedicate a part of his life.