Letourneau's Used Auto Parts

Carolyn Chute. Harper Perennial, $7.95 (244pp) ISBN 978-0-06-097225-7

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 . (June)

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