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It`s harvest time at the Chandler family farm in Arkansas, and there are two groups of workers on hand to help pick the burgeoning cotton crop. There are the Spruills, a large family from the Ozark mountains; and there is also a group of migrant workers from Mexico. When beautiful young Tally Spruill becomes romantically involved with Cowboy, a dashing Mexican, tensions begin to build. The flames are fanned by Hank Spruill, an adolescent boy who is perfectly capable of beating a man to death with his bare hands. The story is told from the point of view of 7-year-old Luke Chandler, and is based on Grisham`s own recollections of his boyhood. More than just the story of mounting tension between the Spruills and the Mexican migrants, it is also a meditation on childhood in a bygone rural America.
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In 1970, one of Mississippi's more colorful weekly newspapers,The Ford County Times, went bankrupt.
To the surprise and dismay of many, ownership was assumed by a 23 year-old college dropout, named Willie Traynor. The future of the paper looked grim until a young mother was brutally raped and murdered by a member of the notorious Padgitt family.
Willie Traynor reported all the gruesome details, and his newspaper began to prosper.The murderer, Danny Padgitt, was tried before a packed courthouse in Clanton, Mississippi.
The trial came to a startling and dramatic end when the defendant threatened revenge against the jurors if they convicted him.
Nevertheless, they found him guilty, and he was sentenced to life in prison.But in Mississippi in 1970,"life" didn't necessarily mean"life," and nine years later Danny Padgitt managed to get himself paroled.
He returned to Ford County, and the retribution began.From the Hardcover edition.
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