Letourneau's Used Auto Parts (A Harvest Book) (Paperback)

by Carolyn Chute (Author) "THE SCOUT CROW, lean in winter, makes a sweep over the outer ring of wrecks and junks..." (more)
Key Phrases: salvage shirt, yard wrecker, yard buggy, Big Lucien, Little Lucien, Crowe Bovey (more...)

Editorial Reviews

From Publishers Weekly
The impoverished citizenry of Miracle City, Maine, rely on Big Lucien Letourneau, the proprietor of an auto salvage junkyard, for jobs and assistance of all kinds. Chute's "compassion for people condemned to dead-end lives infuses this powerful novel with universal meaning," maintained PW .
Copyright 1989 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.

From Library Journal
"The immediacy of the prose evokes in startling clarity the amoral jumble of passions and the suffering of characters' whole lives seem at once so different and yet so much like our own," said LJ's reviewer (LJ 6/15/88) of this follow-up to Chute's first novel, The Beans of Egypt Maine (LJ 3/15/87).
Copyright 1995 Reed Business Information, Inc.

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Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Harvest Books (March 10, 1995)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0156001896
• ISBN-13: 978-0156001892
• Product Dimensions: 8 x 5.2 x 0.7 inches
• Shipping Weight: 9.6 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.8 out of 5 stars See all reviews (6 customer reviews)
• Amazon.com Sales Rank: #836,678 in Books (See Bestsellers in Books)

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14 of 15 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A continuation of the story of Egypt, Maine, December 2, 1998

By A Customer

Carolyn Chute's manipulation of the English language alone warrants her place at the forefront of America's writers today. In Letourneau's Used Auto Parts, Chute continues to tell the story of the very poor of western Maine. This book, even more than The Beans truly evokes the world of the poor, the desperate, and the struggling; as well as their small but important joys and victories. This book truly opened my eyes to what is important in life.

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars Miracle City is Singularly Miraculous, January 14, 2007

By	rocklucklibrary (rural new hampshire) - See all my reviews

Carolyn Chute is basically an effortless genious. I loved the imagery of the trailers in the woods with their homey curtains. Thank you, Carolyn.

2 of 3 people found the following review helpful:

5.0 out of 5 stars A Masterpiece of American Literature, July 28, 2008

By	J. Gunning - See all my reviews (REAL NAME)

Mrs. Chute has done something eternal. It's as though she has carved the Pieta with a chain saw; a Pieta far more moving, poignant and beautiful than Michelangelo's. Society is only a precarious charade against chaos. Your fine manners and social skills aside; we are these people and always have been.