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| Original Title: | The Bean Trees |
| ISBN: | 0812474945 (ISBN13: 9780812474947) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Series: | Greer Family #1 |
| Characters: | Taylor Greer, Turtle Greer, Lou Ann Ruiz, Estevan, Esperanza, Mattie |
| Setting: | Tucson, Arizona(United States) |
Barbara Kingsolver
Hardcover | Pages: 232 pages Rating: 3.97 | 131574 Users | 6177 Reviews
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Clear-eyed and spirited, 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 functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has acquired a completely unexpected child, a three-year-old American Indian girl named Turtle, and must somehow come to terms with both motherhood and the necessity for putting down roots. Hers is a story about love and friendship, abandonment and belonging, and the discovery of surprising resources in apparently empty places.
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| Title | : | The Bean Trees (Greer Family #1) |
| Author | : | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Book Format | : | Hardcover |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 232 pages |
| Published | : | March 1st 1989 by Perfection Learning (first published December 1st 1988) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Novels |
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Ratings: 3.97 From 131574 Users | 6177 ReviewsCommentary Containing Books The Bean Trees (Greer Family #1)
Real Rating: 1.5* of fiveI made a huge mistake. I thought this was The Beans of Egypt, Maine. It wasn't...it was the hallucinations of a pregnant and sleep-deprived Kingsolver transmuted to fiction. I daresay its fans would say "art;" I beg to differ.Like the unbearable gynergy of The Mists of Avalon, the fog of womanness that enshrouds this book blocked my view of its merits.Let me tell you something. . . if Barbara Kingsolver's fictional characters suddenly spring to life and buy houses in my beloved neighborhood. . . I'm moving.Is it because they are creeps and criminals?No. It's because they're boring and humorless and weird. I've officially read 3 of Kingsolver's novels now, and I haven't liked a single character. I enjoyed the story and the writing of Prodigal Summer, yet still managed to dislike every character. Poisonwood Bible and this one? No thanks. It's
I read The Bean Trees as part of an effort to go back and read the early works of my favorite authors. Barbara Kingsolver is one of my all-time favorites. So I went all the way back to her first novel. And Im glad I did. Its hard to believe The Bean Trees is a debut novel.Missy, short for Marietta, later changed to Taylor, heads west from Kentucky in a broken-down 55 Volkswagen bug. Unlike the other girls in her town, she managed to graduate from high school with good grades and without becoming
The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver is the older twin of a book I read a year ago called Pigs in Heaven. As the first book of the duo, it chronicles the flight of Taylor Greer from a small, hick lifestyle to a freer life she didn't expect. Basically, Taylor's managed to be educated and not get pregnant when she finally takes her car across the country. But one night in a bar, a mysterious Indian woman gives her a young girl. Suddenly, Taylor finds that she's a single mother with no prospects.
Time for something completely different and some female authors as well. This author is pretty famous I guess and this book has thousands of reviews on G'reads. My paperback edition has a cover similar to this but not identical. Copyright 1988. So far ... the author leans on the Kountry Kute button rather heavily, but I'm OK with it - so far. I hope I don't get all worn out and such. Making the eccentric believable and compelling can be a challenge. My nephew's wife is from Kentucky, so I can
I quite liked this, though it's obvious that this was Kingsolver's first novel. The main character, Taylor, is unevenly developed--she's too mutable, changing to fit what Kingsolver wants to say or how she wants to say it at various points in the book--and many of the other characters are types, not people, however finely observed. The plotline involving the refugees from Guatemala in particular was a little too anvilicious. And while it's set very definitely in the American South, the novel
Barbara Kingsolver is an author I am terrified to revisit. Many years ago I read The Poisonwood Bible and I loved it. It was a hard read. It challenged me in so many ways, but it was epic and beautiful. Then, I read The Lacuna. Again the storytelling was magical, and with characters such as Frida Kahlo, Diego Rivera, Leon Trotsky... so many real lives to carry you along. So I have always been hesitant, although eager, to pick up her other works. I had this one and I thought, if her first novel
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