| The Bean Trees Contributor(s): Kingsolver, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0061765228 ISBN-13: 9780061765223 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $19.80 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: May 2009 Annotation: Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky. She escapes by buying a '55 Volkswagon and heading west. By the time she reaches Tucson, Arizona, she's "inherited" a three-year-old Indian girl named Turtle. A memorable novel about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Women - Fiction | Family Life - General |
| Dewey: FIC |
| Lexile Measure: 900 |
| Series: P.S. |
| Physical Information: 0.74" H x 5.56" W x 8.26" (0.55 lbs) 256 pages |
| Themes: - Geographic Orientation - Arizona - Cultural Region - Southwest U.S. - Cultural Region - Western U.S. |
| Accelerated Reader Info |
| Quiz #: 52268 Reading Level: 5.6 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 13.0 |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: The Bean Trees is bestselling author Barbara Kingsolver's first novel, now widely regarded as a modern classic. "As clear as air. It is the southern novel taken west, its colors as translucent and polished as one of those slices of rose agate from a desert shop." -- New York Times Book Review It is the charming, engrossing tale of rural Kentucky native Taylor Greer, who only wants to get away from her roots and avoid getting pregnant. She succeeds, but inherits a 3-year-old native-American little girl named Turtle along the way, and together, from Oklahoma to Tucson, Arizona, half-Cherokee Taylor and her charge search for a new life in the West. Written with humor and pathos, this highly praised novel focuses on love and friendship, abandonment and belonging as Taylor, out of money and seemingly out of options, settles in dusty Tucson and begins working at Jesus Is Lord Used Tires while trying to make a life for herself and Turtle. The author of such bestsellers as The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, and Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver has been hailed for her striking imagery and clear dialogue, and this is the novel that kicked off her remarkable literary career. This Harper Perennial Deluxe Edition features beautiful cover artwork on uncoated stock, French flaps, and deckle-edge pages. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kingsolver, Barbara: - Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including the novels, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. |