Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves, by Carolyn Chute
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“Quirky, intensely original...an intellectual page-turner...Chute combines strident political commentary with humor, surrealism, and inventive language. Her novel, like its author…is multilayered and complex, deeply critical of society but fiercely devoted to humans.”–O Magazine“Deeply felt, scorchingly funny.”—Vanity FairLegendary storyteller Carolyn Chute’s return to the setting of her bestseller The Beans of Egypt, Maine has received rave reviews from the mainstream press, with the Boston Globe hailing Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves as “unlike anything else you will ever probably read.” Centered on one controversial man’s attempt to create an alternative community away from the strictures of modern life and mainstream American society, and the scrutiny he and his Settlement come under when the media grabs a hold of their story, Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves is a multilayered, propulsive novel from one of our most daring and original writers.“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."–Boston Globe
Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves, by Carolyn Chute - Amazon Sales Rank: #454059 in Books
- Published on: 2015-09-15
- Original language: English
- Number of items: 1
- Dimensions: 9.00" h x 1.60" w x 6.00" l, .0 pounds
- Binding: Paperback
- 704 pages
Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves, by Carolyn Chute Review Praise for Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves“Carolyn Chute is a James Joyce of the backcountry, a Proust of rural society, an original in every meaning of the word. She inhabits everyone in her creation, sees everything that goes on within it. And though we might at times rather look away, we readers see everything—and everyone—too.”—New York Times Book Review"Quirky, intensely original...an intellectual page-turner...Treat Us Like Dogs... is the work of a writer who defies classification. As in her acclaimed 1985 debut, The Beans of Egypt, Maine, Chute combines strident political commentary with humor, surrealism, and inventive language. Her novel, like its author (who lives off the grid in the woods of Maine), is multilayered and complex, deeply critical of society but fiercely devoted to humans."–O Magazine"As always Chute’s voice is smart, funny, and fired up about righting the wrongs of the world...The book has a breathless quality. It rolls over you like a tide, at times dazzlingly inventive... Fiery, impassioned, and unlike anything else you will ever probably read, you can take Chute’s book as a warning, a letter from the future — or from the present — from people who are tired of promises and lies and just might not be willing to take it anymore."–Boston Globe“There are works of fiction so flawlessly constructed, expansive in scope, daring in form and supple in prose that a reader has to pull back for a moment to allow time for awe. Such books endure, like cathedrals, monuments to the creative spirit. But often as not, you can make the argument that though they are Great Books, they aren’t always great books...Not so with Carolyn Chute’s latest book, a 700-page piece of wonderful, infuriating, narrative energy...This is the work of a writer at the peak of her craft... she’s not afraid to appear clumsy in the pursuit of grace, which is one of the things that makes this book great. And, yes, Great.”—Minneapolis Star Tribune"Deeply felt, scorchingly funny."—Vanity Fair"Chute, a longtime political activist and champion of social justice, writes like a wild animal—ferocious, playful—making mincemeat of contemporary mores. Plenty to gnaw on here."—More"A complex, multilayered story worth digging into, which explores, among other things, poverty, democracy in America, and the role of community in helping those living on the fringe of society take even the tiniest steps forward."—Booklist
About the Author Carolyn Chute is the author of The School on Heart's Content Road, a New York Times Notable Book of the Year; The Beans of Egypt, Maine; Letourneau's Used Auto Parts; Snow Man; and Merry Men. She has been awarded a Guggenheim Fellowship and a Thorton Wilder Fellowship.
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17 of 17 people found the following review helpful. The "low-rung" man, woman, and child speak By M. Feldman Carolyn Chute’s new novel, the second in a projected series, follows “The School on Heart’s Content Road” in its depiction of the Settlement, a utopian agrarian community in the lake and hill country of western Maine. Set in the late 1990’s, this novel centers once more on the Settlement’s charismatic founder, Gordon St. Onge, but it is full of characters, as many as a Russian novel. (There is a helpful list of them all in the back of the book.)Actually, there are four utopian visions in the novel: the communal one of the Settlement, opposed to materialism and corporate greed; the conspiracy-minded one of a local militia group, obsessed with racial purity and the Second Amendment; and the anarchist one of a group that calls itself the Anti-Rich Society. The fourth and newest one, led Bree Vandermast, a Settlement teenager who challenges Gordon’s leadership, calls itself the True Maine Militia and winds together elements of the first three as the young people of the Settlement seek to find their way into the future.The title of the novel, “Treat Us Like Dogs and We Will Become Wolves” speaks for itself. Chute’s subject has always been the poor and dispossessed, but in this novel the social and economic pressures on Egypt, Maine, have become unbearable. The outside world pushes in; it is not enough any more to smash televisions to keep it away. The press writes sensational articles; FBI agents snoop around; DHS social workers inquire. Divisions also arise within the Settlement: should it attach to the Internet? should it allow in a “friendly” reporter? should it keep its distance from the armed militia led by Gordon’s old friend Rex York?However, the great power of this novel lies in the way Chute writes about people who don’t get written about much. It is here that you will find pitch perfect renderings of Maine French Canadian patois and rural Maine vernacular. Sometimes the novel wanders off to describe in loving detail a child’s homemade jumper; “ a rack of loaded canning jars, so seedy and tomatoey, a winter comfort”; a Maine blue sky; a falling-down mobile home. Each character, no matter how minor is rendered as an individual, clothes, quirks, speech patterns, and all, as if in refutation of the view Gordon articulates of the outside world: “There izzz only democracy among lords and ladies and the top. The rest of us are just yard fowl.”Other novels set in Maine, novels like Strout’s “Olive Kitteridge” or Russo’s “Empire Falls,” go down a lot easier than “Treat Us Like Wolves.” It is hard to imagine it being turned into an HBO mini-series. It is a long book that, like a novel by Faulkner, another chronicler of the dispossessed, demands your time and your attention. Throughout the novel, a blaring cartoon television-character characterizes Chute’s people as“the scrungy bad people in the cities and towns across America! They can hurt us! They blow up buildings, they rob, they shoot, they let their children roam and never read to them, they collect welfare, they rape, they piss in front of people and cut people up, they smell and have sores and tattoos and nose rings and nipple rings and swastikas and they never wear pastels. They are dripping in drugs and explosives and have no teeth. They want to hurt us! They are filled with envy and madness. They make our taxes soar. A lot of them are illegal immigrants. Some are not. Whatever, they are COSTING.”In “Treat Us Like Wolves,” Carolyn Chute , astute, sympathetic, and more humorous than the cartoon TV could ever be, answers back.M. Feldman
14 of 17 people found the following review helpful. Good story and characters, but stretched out too long. By Terry L I did not dislike this book and my rating should not be seen as a negative, but just as an "It's Okay" just as the Amazon star rating states a three star rating means.I liked most of the characters. I think they were well done. Generally speaking, I liked the story. I really enjoyed the writing style. However, what knocked down my rating from a four to a three was that I think this book would be way better if about 1/3 of it were edited out. I think it went on too long and some things could have been left out without hurting the story, and in fact would probably help by keeping things moving along better.So basically, I generally liked everything about this book other than it was too long for the story. It is like eating good food. It does not matter how much you like it, sooner or later you will be full and push the extra away. That is what this book needs--to push the extra away.
5 of 5 people found the following review helpful. Many small sections from many points of view---not my cup of tea, but others might enjoy teasing out the story here! By Suzanne Amara I am from Maine, and I know many people, my sister included, who are big fans of Carolyn Chute, and I also know she's well respected by her peers. I hadn't read anything by her before reading this book. I wanted to like it, but it just wasn't my cup of tea.The book is basically about a compound in Maine, made up of a lot of women and their children, with a charismatic male leader who is the father of most of the children. A reporter investigates the compound, and becomes herself intertwined with the leader.The style of the book is quite odd. It's made up of short little sections from different points of view. The sections have icons to identify whose voice or perspective they contain---things like Ivy Morelli (the reporter), but also odder things like "The Greys" (aliens), the forests of Planet Earth and Out in the World. The book also has an extensive character reference section in the back, which requires frequent checking to keep track of who everyone is, although a note by the author says it isn't necessary to do that---you'll figure out in time who is important. I guess I like a more lineal telling of a story.The writing itself, aside from the style, is good here. I have met people like the characters described here, and there is an interesting world created in these pages. If you like the unusual style and you enjoy kind of being thrown into a big, confusing world and reading your way out, you will probably like this book. My rating is based on my own enjoyment of the read, which was limited a great deal by the style.
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