The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver
Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely functioning car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a child: a three-year-old Cherokee girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity of putting down roots.
"So wry and wise we wish it would never end. . . . The chatty, down-home audacity of Barbara Kingsolver's remarkable first novel hooks us on the first page."-San Francisco ChronicleFreshman Common Read: Nebraska Methodist CollegeBarbara Kingsolver's fiction, poetry, and creative nonfiction publications have been widely translated and awarded numerous literary prizes. She founded the PEN/Bellwether Award and received the National Humanities Medal in 2000, the country's highest accolade for service to the arts. She studied and worked as a biologist before embarking on her writing career. She and her husband own and operate a farm in southern Appalachia.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780060915544 |
| ISBN 10 | 0060915544 |
| Title | The Bean Trees |
| Author | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers Inc |
| Year published | 1989-02-15 |
| Number of pages | 240 |
| Prizes | Short-listed for Book Sense Book of the Year Award (Book of the Year) 1991 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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