Carolyn Chute

• Jul-1986
• / General Fiction
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A novel of a down-and-out New England family that “seizes the reader on its opening page with . . . a knock-about country humor unmistakably its own” (Newsweek).   There are families like the Beans all over America. They live ...

• Jun-1989
• / General Fiction
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Tells the stories of the inhabitants of Miracle City, including Big Lucien, owner of the auto parts store, Crowe Bovey, a mechanic, Ernie Train, a country music star, and June Marie, who's in business for herself...

• Mar-1995
• / General Fiction
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New York Newsday called Chute’s third book about Egypt, Maine, “a passionate and gorgeously written homage to americanca’s poor.” With Lloyd Barrington, a modern-day Robin Hood, at the head of the huge cast of characters, this is a “big, am...

• Feb-2001
• / General Fiction
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A mother and daughter see the news reports that a senator has been assassinated in the lobby of Boston's venerable Parker House. They hear that his killer, Robert Drummond, has escaped, prompting a nationwide manhunt. And yet Robert, wounded and suff...

• Nov-2008
• / General Fiction
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A New York Times Notable Book: A group forms its own surrogate family on the margins of society in this novel by the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine.   Mickey Gammon, fifteen, has dropped out of school and been kicked out of his home. But he...

• Nov-2014
• / Literary
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Legendary storyteller Carolyn Chute returns to the setting of her bestseller "The Beans of Egypt, Maine". Centered on one controversial man’s attempt to create an alternative community away from the strictures of modern life and mainstream American...

• Feb-2020
• / Literary
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The PEN New England Award�"winning author returns to Egypt, Maine, where revolution is brewing in a rural compound as the twenty-first century approaches.It’s September 1999, and Gordon St. Onge, known as “The Prophet”, presides over his contr...