La casa dipinta (A Painted House)

by John Grisham, Tullio Dobner (Translator)

Overview

Luke Chandler, un bambino di sette anni, ci racconta l'epopea di un'America contadina fatta di sofferenze e di incanti: le piantagioni, i braccianti, i tramonti dell'Arkansas nel 1952. Ma quella che da lontano appare come un'idillica scena agreste si rivela essere, da vicino, un luogo di mille tensioni: la violenza dei braccianti, la dura lotta per la sopravvivenza, la cupa paura di perdere il raccolto, e un bimbo che affannosamente si aggrappa alla propria innocenza. Sarà tuttavia costretto a crescere in fretta, travolto dai misteriosi avvenimenti che cambieranno per sempre il destino della sua famiglia.
È un universo insolito per i lettori di Grisham, così lontano dal mondo degli avvocati dalle parcelle esorbitanti e dalle limousine a noleggio dei libri precedenti. Eppure anche questo è un romanzo incalzante, che non lascia tregua. Fino a quando - come nel verdetto di una giuria - qualcuno si placherà e spegnerà gli odi secolari. Iniziando, con gesto antico, a dipingere la facciata di casa sua.

Product Details

ISBN-13:	9788852040085
Publisher:	MONDADORI
Publication date:	07/02/2013
Sold by:	ARNOLDO MONDADORI - EBKS
Format:	eBook
File size:	905 KB
Language:	Italian

About the Author

As a young boy in Arkansas, John Grisham dreamed of being a baseball player. Fortunately for his millions of fans, that career didn't pan out. His family moved to Mississippi in 1967, where Grisham eventually received a law degree from Ole Miss and established a practice in Southaven for criminal and civil law. In 1983, Grisham was elected to the Mississippi House of Representatives, where he served until 1990.

While working as an attorney, Grisham witnessed emotional testimony from the case of a young girl's rape. Naturally inquisitive, Grisham's mind started to wander: what if the terrible crime yielded an equally terrible revenge? These questions of right and wrong were the subject of his first novel, A Time to Kill (1988), written in the stolen moments before and between court appearances. The book wasn't widely distributed, but his next title would be the one to bring him to the national spotlight. The day after he finished A Time to Kill, Grisham began work on The Firm (1991), the story of a whiz kid attorney who joins a crooked law firm. The book was an instant hit, spent 47 weeks on The New York Times bestseller list, and was made into a movie starring Tom Cruise.

With the success of The Firm, Grisham resigned from the Mississippi House of Representatives to focus exclusively on his writing. What followed was a string of bestselling legal thrillers that demonstrated the author's uncanny ability to capture the unique drama of the courtroom. Several of his novels were turned into blockbuster movies.

In 1996, Grisham returned to his law practice for one last case, honoring a promise he had made before his retirement. He represented the family of a railroad worker who was killed on the job, the case went to trial, and Grisham won the largest verdict of his career when the family was awarded more than $650,000.

Although he is best known for his legal thrillers, Grisham has ventured outside the genre with several well-received novels (A Painted House, Bleachers, et al) and an earnest and compelling nonfiction account of small-town justice gone terribly wrong (The Innocent Man). The popularity of these stand-alones proves that Grisham is no mere one-trick pony but a gifted writer with real "legs."

Hometown:

Oxford, Mississippi, and Albemarle County, Virginia

Date of Birth:

February 8, 1955

Place of Birth:

Jonesboro, Arkansas

Education:

B.S., Mississippi State, 1977; J.D., University of Mississippi, 1981

Website:

http://www.jgrisham.com