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The Beans of Egypt, Maine

2008-09 Fiction
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Release : 2008-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 594/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Beans of Egypt, Maine by : Carolyn Chute

Download or read book The Beans of Egypt, Maine written by Carolyn Chute. This book was released on 2008-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Chronicles the lusty lives of the sprawling Bean family--brawling psychopath Uncle Rubie, perpetually pregnant Aunt Roberta, and the gentle but violent in defeat Beal--as they raucously and desperately struggle through their impoverished lives. Reprint.

The Beans of Egypt, Maine

2008-09-09 Fiction
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Release : 2008-09-09
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 168/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Beans of Egypt, Maine by : Carolyn Chute

Download or read book The Beans of Egypt, Maine written by Carolyn Chute. This book was released on 2008-09-09. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In this novel that “pulses with kinetic energy,” we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau, and experience her obsession with the whole swarming Bean tribe (Newsweek). There is cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler; tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless clinging babies; and Beal, sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him. In The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Carolyn Chute—whose jobs included waitress, chicken factory worker, and hospital floor scrubber before gaining renown as a prize-winning novelist—creates “a fictional world so vivid and compelling that one feels at a loss when it ends. The Beans belong with the Snopes clan of Faulkner’s Yoknapatawpha County, with Erskine Caldwell’s white Southerners, and with the rural blacks of Alice Walker’s The Color Purple” (San Jose Mercury News).

Merry Men

1994-01-01 Fiction
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Release : 1994-01-01
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 708/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis Merry Men by : Carolyn Chute

Download or read book Merry Men written by Carolyn Chute. This book was released on 1994-01-01. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Barringtons' clan wins a reputation for eccentricity with the behavior of Unk Walty, who constructs life-like and life-size sculptures of Egypt, Maine, residents. By the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine. 40,000 first printing. $50,000 ad/promo. Tour.

The Recipe for Revolution

2020-02-11 Fiction
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Release : 2020-02-11
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 528/5 ( reviews)

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Book Synopsis The Recipe for Revolution by : Carolyn Chute

Download or read book The Recipe for Revolution written by Carolyn Chute. This book was released on 2020-02-11. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: 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 controversial Settlement in rural Maine. It is rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the land and off the grid. The newest member, fifteen year old Brianna Vandermast, is fired up and ready for change. Forming her own militia, Bree spreads her vision by writing “The Recipe”, an incendiary revolutionary document that winds up in the hands of wealthy elites—including one who is about to have a fateful encounter with Gordon. A chance drinking session during an airport layover brings Gordon together with multinational CEO Bruce Hummer. Bruce hands Gordon a mysterious brass key which has the potential to spark the unrest that is stirring in Egypt, Maine. As word of “The Recipe” spreads, myriad factions from across the country arrive at The Settlement wanting to make Gordon their poster boy. Gordon soon finds himself at the center of an uprising, the consequences of which no one can predict.

Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves

2014-11-04 Fiction
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Release : 2014-11-04
Genre : Fiction
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Book Rating : 932/5 ( reviews)

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Download or read book Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves written by Carolyn Chute. This book was released on 2014-11-04. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: “An intellectual page-turner” set in a secretive countercultural community by the author of The Beans of Egypt, Maine (O, The Oprah Magazine). It’s the height of summer 1999, when local Maine newspaper the Record Sun receives numerous tipoffs from anonymous callers warning of violence, weapons stockpiling, and rampant child abuse at the nearby homeschool on Heart’s Content Road. Hungry to break into serious journalism, Ivy Morelli sets out to meet the mysterious leader of the homeschool, Gordon St. Onge—referred to by many as “The Prophet.” Soon, Ivy ingratiates herself into the sprawling Settlement, a self-sufficient counterculture community that many locals suspect to be a wild cult. Despite her initial skepticism—not to mention the Settlement’s ever-growing group of pregnant teenage girls—Ivy finds herself irresistibly drawn to Gordon. Then, a newcomer—a gifted, disturbed young girl with wild orange hair—joins the community, and falls into a complicated relationship with the charismatic Prophet. When the Record Sun finally runs its piece on the leader of the Settlement, lives will be changed both within and beyond the community, in this novel by a writer described by the New York Times Book Review as “a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society.”

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