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THE BEAN TREES.

THE BEAN TREES.

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THE BEAN TREES.

by Kingsolver, Barbara

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ISBN 10
0060158638
ISBN 13
9780060158637
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New York:: Harper & Row,, (1988.). Hardcover first edition -. Very good- in very good+ dust jacket (rust colored stain and a little crinkling to upper corner of textblock, price-clipped.). First printing. Kentucky-born author's very highly praised debut novel which tells the story of Taylor Greene, a young woman who after having grown up poor in rural Kentucky, buys an old car and heads west, where she winds up part of an extraordinary household in Tucson, Arizona. 232 pp.

Synopsis

The Bean Trees , first published in 1988, is the first book written by Barbara Kingsolver and was followed by a sequel, Pigs in Heaven . Taylor Greer hightails it out of Kentucky as soon as she gets a car, refusing to be just another small-town girl.  She soon finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory, and in a parking lot, a desperate and frightened woman hands Taylor a Cherokee toddler and leaves. Taylor and the child, named Turtle, keep moving out west and try to find somewhere to put down roots and grow. British Fantasy Award (1988)

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Bookseller's Inventory #
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Title
THE BEAN TREES.
Author
Kingsolver, Barbara
Format/Binding
Hardcover first edition -
Book Condition
Used - Very good- in very good+ dust jacket (rust colored stain and a little crinkling to upper corner of textblock, price-clipped.)
Jacket Condition
very good+
Binding
Hardcover
ISBN 10
0060158638
ISBN 13
9780060158637
Publisher
Harper & Row,
Place of Publication
New York:
Date Published
(1988.)
Keywords
kentucky, tucson, arizona, immigration, safe house,
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