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Snow Man

by Carolyn Chute

Published 2001256 pagesISBN 978-0-1560-1140-2

Senator Kip Davies is dead, shot execution-style by a man news reports describe as a member of "an ultra-right-wing militia" from Maine. The hunt for the killer is nationwide, and yet the assassin has found refuge where he might least expect it. Wounded and weak, Robert Drummond is being cared for in the home of another senator currently in Washington. The senator's daughter and his wife become Drummond's protectors - if not his hostages - while he grows stronger during the next several heart-pulsing weeks. As they become intimately involved with Drummond, these women learn firsthand the philosophy and psychology of the militia movement that has become such a terrifying puzzlement in America. And when their desperate drama ends - in a fashion at once unpredictable and inevitable - it brings with it a measure of understanding of how this country functions and dysfunctions. Snow Man is not simply a book about the FBI or terrorism or politics; it is above all a story about how left and right, rich and poor, men and women can all find a shared tenderness.

Beyond its central premise, the book can be read through the connected lenses of Fiction. Those themes offer useful points of attention as the characters, ideas, or world develop, especially where the book complicates the expectations of its primary category.

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Reading experience

Balanced tone · Measured pace

A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

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Reading lengthA standard-length read256 pages in this edition
Publication eraModernFirst published or edition dated 2001
Primary categoryFictionExplore similar books below
ISBN-13
978-0-1560-1140-2
Language
English
Edition record
OL7365467M
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A comfortable full-length choice for steady daily reading.

Begin with its place in Fiction, then notice where the book resists that label.

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Read for connection, not completion.

Mark one passage that sharpens the book's central concern and one that complicates it. That tension often reveals more than a quick summary.

Three questions to carry with you

  1. What does the central character want, and what do they misunderstand about that desire?
  2. Which detail or relationship changes how you interpret the story?
  3. What feeling or question does the book leave with you after the plot moves on?

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