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From: jcp@osiris.UUCP (Jody Patilla)
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Subject: Re: _The Beans of Egypt, Maine_ by Carolyn Chute
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Date: Sun, 14-Apr-85 08:47:26 EST
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> This book is being pushed by the Quality Paperback Book Club, since
> they published it as part of their "New Voices" series (authors who
> no one had ever heard of before), and the book (according to them) has
> become popular.  It didn't look interesting, and I don't know of anyone
> mentioning they had read it.
> 	Cliff Shaffer
> 	...!cvl!cas

	The book has been prominently reviewed in the New York Times
Book Review and the Washington Post Book World, and the author, Carolyn
Chute, was extensively interviewed in the Washington Post Style section.
From reading what the book is about, I can't understand what the big deal
is, myself, and judging from readers' letters, they couldn't either. Chute
makes a big deal about being poor and desperate and so forth when it would
seem that she was that way largely by choice. Her mother was quoted as
being very embarrassed by it, and hoping people wouldn't think that she
was brought up that way, at least.
-- 
  

jcpatilla

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