Soos Nuut – ‘n Tweedehandse boek wat nog maklik vir ‘n nuwe een kan deurgaan,īaie Goed – Die boek wys minimale verweer, Worn books are still good perfect for a good read, all pages will be intact with none threatening to fall out. Worn – Book shows severe wear and tear while still being intact (commonly known as a “reading copy”).

Good – Book shows visible reading wear but nothing serious.įair – Book shows clear and more significant wear, especially on the cover, but is still solid and intact. Very Good – Book is in great condition with only a minor blemish here and there. As the weeks pass Luke sees and hears things no seven-year-old could possibly be prepared for, and he finds himself keeping secrets that not only threaten the crop but will change the lives of the Chandlers forever.Īs New – A secondhand book that can easily pass for a new one. 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.įor six weeks they pick cotton, battling the heat, the rain, the fatigue, and sometimes each other. 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. Thus begins the new novel from John Grisham, a story inspired by his own childhood in rural Arkansas. 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. The Cardinals were five games behind the Dodgers with three weeks to go, and the season looked hopeless. It was a Wednesday, early in September 1952. “The hill people and the Mexicans arrived on the same day.

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