The Fields Are White

by B.J. Chute

A ten day April interlude presents Andrew Collier at forty -- thoroughly dissatisfied with the present, regretful about the past and restless about the future. There are his lost dreams of being an architect, his dislike of the factory he had inherited, his hatred of the small New England town he had hoped to escape. He nourishes his discontent which leads him to thwart a boy's attempt to live down a reform school sentence, squash hopeful ideas of enlarging the factory, watch with wry amusement his brother-in-law's tumultuous engagement to strong-willed Virginia. His personal analysis of his unhappiness comes to nothing and it is his rude awakening to a secret of his wife's that pulls him up short and revises his attitude. An often amusing, sometimes wise, novel of marriage and maturity, this has manners as well as social graces.

219 pages, Hardcover

Published January 1, 1950

About the author

B.J. Chute was born in Minneapolis, Minnesota, and lived there until she came to New York in 1940. A professional writer since 1931, Miss Chute has written hundreds of stories, which have appeared in Boys' Life, the Boy Scout magazine, and numerous anthologies of outstanding sports stories for young people. Her adult stories have appeared in nearly every major magazine, including The Saturday Evening Post, Good Housekeeping, McCall's, and Redbook. She has written four adult novels—The Fields Are White, The End of Loving, Greenswillow, Moon and the Thorn—and a collection of short stories, The Blue Cup.
- taken from the dust jacket of Blocking Back

aka Beatrice Joy Chute