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guardian.co.uk published on Sat, 25 Sep 2010
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Trouble comes to the cotton fields
A writer who can go on about the logistics and economics of cotton-picking at some length without alienating the reader must have something going for him - in fact probably has considerable talent. It was one of the things Hemingway was good at, dwel ... (read full critics)
spectator published on Fri, 17 Sep 2010
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A Painted House
This book is one of a handful where Grisham has departed from his usual courtroom drama genre. I was really impressed with his writing here. This is a richly detailed and enthralling character-driven period tale told from the point of view of a 7 year-old boy during his last cotton harvest on his ... (continue)
Readingrat said on Jan 3, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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A very boring book. I'm very disappointed with Grisham. The whole book was based on a 6 yo kid's perspective and it did inspired me for my book. But the storyline is just dull. Well, maybe it's the fact that I don't understand baseball. 10% of the story was about baseball. It was about farmers.... S ... (continue)
Running Jan said on Jun 26, 2008 about the Others edition | 1 feedback
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Cotton-picking season in 1952 rural Arkansas seen through the eyes of a seven-year old boy. His escape from all the hardships of farming is baseball - listening to radio broadcasts of the Cards' games is almost the only family leisure, and he dreams of running away from it all one day and becoming a ... (continue)
ary29 said on Nov 23, 2011 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
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Meganhender24 said on Sep 20, 2011 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Lindyloumac said on Aug 31, 2009 about the Mass Market Paperback edition | Add your feedback
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Kim said on Mar 28, 2009 about the Hardcover edition | Add your feedback
Book Details
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- English Books
- Paperback 480 Pages
- Edition: New Ed
- ISBN-10: 0099416158
- ISBN-13: 9780099416159
- Publisher: Arrow Books Ltd
- Pub date: Jan 03, 2002
- Dimensions: 1161 mm x 710 mm x 194 mm Just how big is that?
- Also available as: Mass Market Paperback, Hardcover, Audio CD, Audio Cassette, School & Library Binding and Others
- In other languages: other languages
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