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Bezig met laden... Merry Men (1994)door Carolyn Chute
   Must-Read Maine (26) Bezig met laden...
 Meld je aan bij LibraryThing om erachter te komen of je dit boek goed zult vinden. Op dit moment geen Discussie gesprekken over dit boek.  CurrerBell | Jan 10, 2019 |   Chute's 700-page epic brings the notorious Bean family back to at least peripheral focus as she reveals that an entire multi-faceted community is, indeed, her main character. Toward the end of this book, we learn that Earlene has made peace with Ruben Bean and continues to bear him many babies. In fact, the Beans take on a golden glow of lumpen-working class virtue and closeness to nature in contrast to the apparent cruelty of central character Lloyd Barrington. Ruben Bean's rages and violence have nothing on Lloyd's methodical coldness, over a period of years, as he endeavors to confront his upper-class lover with the irregularities surrounding her father's death. Is class hatred and resentment his motivation? Or is he sincerely convinced that she must "see the body" (so to speak) in order to escape denial? Either way, the hapless little rich girl has a hard shock in store. Would the lower-class heroines who thickly populate the the novel's numerous subplots approve of such cruel methods? I would say not, but Chute makes clear that women's views count for very little. (  ) AnesaMiller | Mar 18, 2014 |  ) abirdman | Jul 4, 2007 | geen besprekingen | voeg een bespreking toe
Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Egypt, Maine (3) OnderscheidingenErelijsten
"In 1985 The Beans of Egypt, Maine came into this world, the unique creation of Carolyn Chute. A microcosm, Egypt instantly became part of America's fictional landscape. Three years later Ms. Chute gave us, in Letourneau's Used Auto Parts, a further - and broader - take on a world in miniature." "But hold on. In Merry Men Egypt, Maine, is not so small, as Chute demonstrates so tellingly in her lamination of that society. There are the Barringtons, a classic Egypt clan, complete with Unk Walty, who does all the cooking and devotes his spare time to constructing lifelike and life-size sculptures of the denizens of the area, and his nephew, Lloyd, who at age 8 and 3/4 is widely - and rightly - known as Super Tree Man." "On to the upper middle class, as exemplified by the family of Dr. William Curry, who has just died. How his widow, Phoebe, and his assorted children deal with the sudden loss is, to put it mildly, a wonder to behold." "This is only the beginning of Carolyn Chute's saga, an epic in which she remarkably pulls together all the strands until we have before us an amazing and coherent and altogether rewarding picture of a place unlike any other but eerily similar to most."--BOOK JACKET.Title Summary field provided by Blackwell North America, Inc. All Rights Reserved Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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And, obsessively compulsively, I'm inclined to do a family tree of the blood and marital relationships of all the characters in Chute's "Egypt, Maine" series, which has taken on the scope and quality of Faulkner's Yoknapatawpha County. (