Byline: JOCELYN MC CLURG
"Merry Men." By Carolyn Chute. Harcourt Brace. 695 pp. $24.95.
Carolyn Chute says her novels aren't political. But as someone who has experienced grinding poverty firsthand, her ideas about what's wrong with this country sound, well, downright political.
Her new novel, "Merry Men" (Harcourt Brace, $24.95), a rich, sprawling saga that is once again set in the fictional town of Egypt, Maine, is dedicated to "all the farmers who still work the land themselves ... who know family and community interdependence ... America's last vestiges of freedom."
There's a palpable current of anger coursing through Chute's …
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