Snow Man - unabridged audiobook Carolyn Chute militia radical

Snow Man, published 1999, 256 pages written by Carolyn Chute, read by Julia Delfino Transferred from four audio-cassettes, merged, then separated by chapters, and encoded as 80 kbps MP3s. ------------- 5.0 out of 5 stars The book is a brilliant take on America's class struggle., April 29, 1999 By loonalone@maine.com (Maine) If you have any interest in knowing about the currents that roil just below the glassy calm of American life, read this book. Carolyn Chute is a great storyteller and this is a great story, no matter what the barely literate, unconcealably jealous Kirkus reviewer says. The Amazon reviewer has him nailed cold. For that matter, the Kirkus review is exactly what is wrong with the book biz -- anything that gets too powerful, put it down, try to squelch its sales, ignore it. Maybe Amazon.com will change some of that. Hope so. ------------- 5.0 out of 5 stars The Radical Chic Blanch April 3, 2000 By A Customer This is the best thing Chute has ever written. So why did it turn her into an unperson among the literary elite? Ostensibly because her hero is a right-wing militiaman who assassinates a US Senator. But the assassination is shown to be a rather horrid affair: no glorification there. And this right-winger's heroes are all Latin American left wing guerillas. And aside from a bitterness toward the rich and powerful, the hero does not express his views with any degree of coherence, so this is not right wing propaganda. To find out why this book has caused Ms. Chute to be dropped from the A list, you have to go back to Tom Wolfe's Radical Chic. Underlying the limousine liberal's love affair with the Black Panthers was a certain sense of superiority and contempt for the blacks they pretended to listen to. It was the same reason why Ms. Chute was lionized for her earlier books about the Maine equivalent of Tobacco Road: she was the tour guide who would give them a nice, safe viewing of an inferior culture, rather like the way the aristocracy visited lunatic asylums in the 18th century. Now Ms. Chute has slipped her traces. The tour guide has joined the toothless outsiders and set fire to the bus. Her hero may be a killer who deserves his fate, but he has manners, grace, authenticity and character. The liberal matron and her consciousness-raised daughter fall into his bed because he has qualities they haven't seen before, certainly not in the worthless men of what passes for an elite in this country these days. And that is what causes the revolt of the book reviewers. Yes many of her characters are empty vessels, plastic men with plastic women. But that is entirely Ms. Chute's point." ------------- 5.0 out of 5 stars Absolutely Revolutionary, September 23, 2009 By Daniel Mcadams This is an incredibly revolutionary book. It is not a thriller or a love story, though it contains those elements. The narrative is "post-modern" in that perspective shifts continuously depending on what Chute is trying to get across at the moment. It might be off-putting at first. Particularly as the dog seems to have consciousness. But stick with it and you will see that there is a point to how she tells the story. That is part of the story and that is what gives it its energy. At its core it is a social critique par excellence because it takes no prisoners, so to speak. Brilliant stuff. I can see how some would fail to understand or would reject such a fundamental criticism of the system. Free your mind. ------------- 1. intro, jacket copy 1:49 2. Author's note 1:35 3. Ch. 1 1:48 4. Ch. 2 1:21 5. Ch. 3 15:09 6. Ch. 4 25:42 7. Ch. 5 2:21 8. Ch. 6 10:32 9. Ch. 7 3:15 10. Ch. 8 7:49 11. Ch. 9 4:05 12. Ch. 10 7:30 13. Ch. 11 15:05 14. Ch. 12 4:28 15. Ch. 13 8:17 16. Ch. 14 6:54 17. Ch. 15 13:24 18. Ch. 16 1:42 19. Ch. 17, 18 1:00 20. Ch. 19 2:06 21. Ch. 20 10:05 22. Ch. 21, 22 6:10 23. Ch. 23 5:38 24. Ch. 24 2:17 25. Ch. 25 3:23 26. Ch. 26, 27 3:06 27. Ch. 28, 29 2:14 28. Ch. 30 3:50 29. Ch. 31 6:15 30. Ch. 32 1:36 31. Ch. 33 5:47 32. Ch. 34 4:35 33. Ch. 35 5:29 34. Ch. 36 1:13 35. Ch. 37 3:18 36. Ch. 38, 39 7:24 37. Ch. 40 5:44 38. Ch. 41, 42 4:29 39. Ch. 43 5:19 40. Ch. 44, 45 2:20 41. Ch. 46, 47 4:14 42. Ch. 48 7:35 43. Ch. 49 2:28 44. Ch. 50 2:38 45. Ch. 51 1:57 46. Ch. 52 3:44 47. Ch. 53 1:41 48. Ch. 54 6:06 49. Ch. 55, 56 16:29 50. Ch. 57, 58 3:11 51. Ch. 59, 60 5:05 52. Ch. 61 1:16 53. Ch. 62, 63 2:27 54. Ch. 64 11:35 55. Ch. 65 2:34 56. Ch. 66 1:33 57. Ch. 67 3:25 58. Ch. 68, 69 1:58 59. Ch. 70 9:54 60. Acknowledgements 2:43