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. prose as clean and strong as any Grisham has yet laid down. Never let it be said this man doesn't know how to spin a good yarn.'- Entertainment Weekly 'Characters that no reader will forget. John Grisham takes command of this literary category just as forcefully as he did legal thrillers with The Firm. '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. Don't miss John Grisham's new book, THE EXCHANGE: AFTER THE FIRM, coming soon! And as young Luke watches the world around him, he unravels secrets that could shatter lives - and change his family and his town forever. and someone has begun furtively painting the bare clapboards of the Chandler farmhouse, slowly, painstakingly, bathing the run-down structure in gleaming white. A beautiful young woman ignites forbidden passions.

And suddenly mysteries are flooding Luke's world.Ī brutal murder leaves the town seething in gossip and suspicion. 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.īook Synopsis #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. About the Book Until that September of 1952, Luke Chandler had never kept a secret or told a single lie.

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