Robert M. Chute

With Roadside Rest, Robert Chute returns to Wyman Falls. Readers of Coming Home and Return to Sender will recognize many of the characters and much of the landmarks in this mystery set in post Korean War rural Maine. Mystery unfolds as a fellow from West Virginia comes to town with a deed to property owned by Willis Wyman and James Johnson. The West Virginian goes missing. There are more questions than answers in an investigation that includes quirky town characters. Meanwhile Jim Johnson is missing in action from Korea. Enjoy this story as it takes you around the world and back to Maine with nonstop action revealed through Chutes` prose-that, like his poetry, is, "careful language, precise, with a sparse beauty." Nancy Grape of Maine...

Дата выхода: январь 2012

Robert M. Chute brings us the sequel to Coming Home: A Maine Mystery. In Return to Sender, Melonie Janus thinks she knows who killed her stepbrother and dumped his body into the lake to fake an accident. Jefferson County`s Sheriff Dumont and DA Black are stymied by a lack of evidence for arrest and trial. Melonie embarks on a dangerous private voyage, traveling to Wyman Falls at the southern end of a wilderness lake extending north across the Canadian border. Readers of Coming Home will recognize many of the residents of Wyman Falls as they continue their usual (or unusual) activities. Willis Wyman and his steam-powered lake boat, Leland Fogg, a disabled veteran with mathematical and romantic aptitudes, and the obsessive-compulsive...

Дата выхода: январь 2011

This book makes available a generous array of [Chute`s] narrative poems, most of them originally published by small presses, sometimes in limited editions. Besides, it collects eight shorter poems from literary magazines. Admirers of Chute`s work, whose numbers must surely be growing, will be glad to find so many of his essential poems so conveniently gathered together. X.J.Kennedy Each of [Chute`s] poems is a search for meaning, that peculiarly human activity we couldn`t stop if we tried. It is the concern of the poet and of his characters. ---Pamela Alexander, author of "Navigable Waters" His images are as sharp as crusted snow, and the winter lands he shows us is obviously a land which he knows and has walked himself, a land as real...

Дата выхода: январь 2009