The School on Heart's Content Road (Paperback)
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Description
Chute's newest work returns to her beloved town of Egypt, Maine, and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of those living on the margins of society.
Praise for The School on Heart's Content Road…
“Brave, passionate and raw, fiercely written . . . A profoundly human novel . . . Absolutely one of a kind.”—USA Today
“A roiling stew of cajoling comedy, political diatribe, and incisively rendered portraits of rural poverty and despair.”—The Washington Post
“A triumph of characterization and color . . . Vivid . . . Breathtaking . . . Enjoy the ride.”—The Christian Science Monitor
“[A] vibrant pastiche of a novel . . . [with] energy-on-the-loose prose and anti-establishment atmospherics.”—Chicago Tribune
“Carolyn Chute emerges as a modern-day Dickensian voice for the losers in class warfare. . . . [The School on Heart's Content Roadis her]best book to date. . . . We have our Dickens now.”—San Diego Union Tribune
“Raw and strong and vivid, with deep resounding echoes of Faulkner and Upton Sinclair . . . Chute’s a scientist, brilliant and mad, lighting matches under beakers, mixing compounds, breaking words into their smallest divisible parts.”—The Los Angeles Times
“Like a ferocious bulletin from an alternate universe—tumbling, pell-mell, brilliant and strange—comes this explosive, discomfiting . . . beautiful novel.”—The New York Times Book Review
“Conscience-altering . . . Chute bares a hidden America . . . [offering] perspectives on the need for justice and mercy, a safe house for the heart.”—O, the Oprah Magazine
