Egypt, Maine Series by Carolyn Chute

3.62 · 29 ratings
  • The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Egypt, Maine #1)
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    The Beans of Egypt, Maine (Egypt, Maine #1)

    Carolyn Chute

    Rated: 3.56 of 5 stars
    · 16 ratings · published 1985

    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 around. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In the 'Beans of Egypt', Maine, we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe... more

  • Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (Egypt, Maine #2)
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    Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (Egypt, Maine #2)

    Carolyn Chute

    Rated: 3.63 of 5 stars
    · 8 ratings · published 1988

    Head of the Letourneau clan of Egypt, Maine, owner of the only profitable business in town, and notorious philanderer, Big Lucien presides over an assortment of oddball characters, from an aging flower child to a country music star. Reprint.

  • Merry Men (Egypt, Maine #3)
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    Merry Men (Egypt, Maine #3)

    Carolyn Chute

    Rated: 4.00 of 5 stars
    · 4 ratings · published 1994

    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 Notable Book of the Year.

  • The Recipe for Revolution (Egypt, Maine #6)
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    The Recipe for Revolution (Egypt, Maine #6)

    Carolyn Chute

    Rated: 3.00 of 5 stars
    · 1 ratings · published 2020

    It's September 1999 and the world is on the cusp of a new millennium. In rural Maine, Gordon St. Onge, known as "The Prophet", presides over his controversial Settlement, a place rumored to be a cult, where his many wives and children live off the grid and off the land. Out in greater America, Bruce Hummer, the aging CEO of multinational corporation Duotron Lindsey, lays off workers by the thousands... more

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