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The Amazon Store at MillionDollarPetPix.com ( In association with Amazon.com )The School on Heart's Content Roadby: Carolyn Chute  List Price: $29.95 Amazon.com's Price: $22.76 You Save: $7.19 (24%)Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours
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Binding: Audio CDDewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9781423374589 Edition: MP3 Una Format: Audiobook, MP3 Audio, Unabridged ISBN: 1423374584 Label: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Manufacturer: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Number Of Items: 2 Publication Date: November 01, 2008 Publisher: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Release Date: November 01, 2008 Studio: Brilliance Audio on MP3-CD Related Items:
Browse for similar items by category: Click to Display Editorial Review: Product Description: Carolyn Chute has been heralded as a passionate voice of the underclass, earning comparisons to William Faulkner, John Steinbeck, and Flannery O’Connor. Now, Chute returns to the unforgettable town of Egypt, Maine, and delivers a rousing, politically charged portrait of another group of lives on the margins of our society. The School on Heart’s Content Road begins with the story of Mickey Gammon, a fifteen-year-old dropout who has been evicted from home by his half-brother. Alone, Mickey is introduced to the secretive world of the Settlement and its leader, a man known to many as the “The Prophet.” A rural cooperative in alternative energy, farm produce, and local goods, the Settlement is demonized by the media as a compound of sin, and its true nature remains foreign to outsiders. It is at the Settlement where Mickey’s life collides with that of another deserted child, six-year-old Jane – a cunning, beautiful girl of mixed race, whose mother is in jail on trumped up drug charges. “Secret Agent Jane” prowls the Settlement in her heart-shaped sunglasses, imagining that her childish plans to bring down the community will reunite her with her mother. As they struggle to adjust to their new, complex surrogate family, Mickey and Jane witness the mounting unrest within the Settlement’s ranks, which soon builds to a shocking and devastating crescendo. Vehement and poetic, The School on Heart’s Content Road questions the nature of family, culture, and authority in an intensely diverse nation. It is an urgent plea from those who have been shoved to the fringes of society, but who refuse to be silenced. Average Rating:
 Rating: - Beyond the Second AmendmentGrinding poverty, the heart of Maine, a settlement masquerading as a cooperative deeply suspicious of US foreign policy and public schools, the Border Mountain Militia, and a 6 year old narrator with pink heart-shaped glasses -- make for a paranoid, visionary tale of monsters, outcasts, and just plain folks. Told as only Carolyn Chute can as one who actually lives in this gun-tottin' outpost of civilization. Rating:  - Maine, away from the lighthouses and lobsters"The School on Heart's Content Road," Carolyn Chute's fifth novel, is set, like her first novel ("The Beans of Egypt, Maine") in the kind of small, rural inland community that can be found just about anywhere in Maine. It is a Maine mostly unknown to the summer tourists who populate the coast. Chute's Egypt, modeled loosely on Parsonsfield, where she lives with her husband, has an IGA supermarket, not a giant Hannaford's or Shaw's, and its back roads contain an assortment of decaying farmsteads, ... Read More Rating:  - Could not hold my attentionThis was my first Carolyn Chute novel. The characters were wonderfully drawn. I appreciated how Ms. Chute was able to work with the unusual structure of giving multiple characters (even a crow) the opportunity to assume various parts of the narrative. I loved the idiosyncrasies of the people. They were totally believeable and often intriguing. The writing was dazzling at times. Ms. Chute knows how to deliver convincing dialogue and how to describe people, objects and places in a fresh way. So what's ... Read More Rating: - Review of School on Heart's Content RoadCarolyn Chute's book, The School on Heart's Content Road is a wonderful book that's a slice of life that leaves the reader wondering what will happen next for the hero and heroine. I am hoping the author will write the sequel soon and tell us more about all the characters she has created for us. I highly recommend this novel and others she has written. 
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