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Nationally bestselling author and winner of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, Carolyn Chute, returns with
The Recipe for Revolution, a searing portrait of class, politics, and brewing social change
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Nationally bestselling author and winner of the PEN New England Award for Literary Excellence in Fiction, Carolyn Chute, returns with The Recipe for Revolution, a searing portrait of class, politics, and brewing social change
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Praise for The Recipe for Revolution
New York Times Editors' Choice
“The events of the novel take place circa Y2K, but Chute’s concerns seem very 2020: how reality is named, created, fragmented, trolled, distorted… the writing is often wicked gorgeous. And it’s been her career long passion, this ongoing searing critique of profit’s “god-sized system. In place of a traditional plot, Chute allows characters to slowly emerge, exert a kind of magnetic pull and then recede. It feels like the literary equivalent of a big choir with occasional soloist.” —New York Times Book Review
“[C]haracters and relationships drive this novel with a fierce political vision that feels uniquely tailored for our times.” —Booklist
"Essential reading. . . . [The] third volume in Chute’s blistering series about the Settlement, a radical, politically incorrect collective of the disorderly and disaffected in rural Maine.”—Kirkus Reviews
Praise for Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves
“Carolyn Chute is the James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society, an original in every meaning of the word.”—New York Times Book Review
“Quirky, intensely original...an intellectual page-turner...Chute combines strident political commentary with humor, surrealism, and inventive language... multilayered and complex, deeply critical of society but fiercely devoted to humans.”—O Magazine
“Deeply felt, scorchingly funny.”—Vanity Fair
“A 700-page piece of wonderful, infuriating, narrative energy...This is the work of a writer at the peak of her craft.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune
“As always Chute’s voice is smart, funny, and fired up about righting the wrongs of the world...fiery, impassioned, and unlike anything else you will ever probably read.” —Boston Globe
“[Chute] writes like a wild animal—ferocious, playful—making mincemeat of contemporary mores. Plenty to gnaw on here.”—More
