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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
1853810371
ISBN 13
9781853810374
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London: Virago Press, 1989 First printing of the first British edition. Author's first book. Book in fine condition; dust jacket with faint creasing, else fine.

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
Idler Fine Books US (US)
Bookseller's Inventory #
001791
Title
The Bean Trees
Author
Kingsolver, Barbara
Illustrator
Paul Mirocha (Author photo); Dee Shulman
Format/Binding
Hardcover
Book Condition
Used - Fine
Jacket Condition
Fine
Quantity Available
1
Edition
1st Edition
ISBN 10
1853810371
ISBN 13
9781853810374
Publisher
Virago Press
Place of Publication
London
Date Published
1989
Keywords
Fiction, Literature, Author's First book, Women Writers.

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