num_pages: 576
description: 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....From the Paperback edition.
language: English
title: A Painted House
titlecomplete: A Painted House
characters: Luke
genres: Fiction, Historical, Coming Of Age, Mystery, Thriller, Drama, Novels, Adult Fiction, Historical Fiction, Suspense
ratings_count: 91963
places: Arkansas
awards: awardedAt: 978336000000
name: Publieksprijs voor het Nederlandse Boek
publisher: Random House Large Print