Merry Men
A Fiction book. A wonderfully well written, emotionally powerful tour de force. Every time...
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, ambitious, satisfying novel...that should solidify Ms. Chute’s place as one of the unique voices of her generation” (Dallas Morning News). Named a New York Times...
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- Pages: 712 pages
- ISBN: 9780156001915 / 156001918
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A wonderfully well written, emotionally powerful tour de force. Every time I cracked this book open I was instantly transported to Egypt, Maine - it has been a long time since I have so completely forgotten my surroundings that I stopped reading in a daze, disoriented and needing to place myself again, every single time I became immersed... I read The Beans of Egypt, Maine decades ago, and Letourneau's Used Auto Parts when it came out, so this is my third Carolyn Chute book. She definitely has a unique voice and an effective, efficient writing style (even though this book is about 700 pages). She also has a tiny little piece of the world that she focuses on, and characters... This is a haunting book. At first, it seems like it's going to be the stories of a motherless son, Lloyd Barrington, and a fatherless daughter, Gwen Curry, growing up in little rural Egypt, Maine in the 1960's, and the ways that their surviving, larger-than-life parents' expectations about what it means to be a man or a woman misshape...
