The Bean Trees
by the Winner of the 2023 Women's Prize for Fiction
$33.05
- Paperback
240 pages
- Release Date
2 April 2001
Summary
The bestselling debut novel by Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
Plucky Taylor Greer grows up poor in rural Kentucky with two goals: to avoid pregnancy and to get away. She succeeds on both counts when she buys an old car and heads west. But midway across the country, motherhood catches up with her when she becomes guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tucson they encounter an extraordinary array of peo…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780349114170 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 034911417X |
| Author: | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Publisher: | Little, Brown Book Group |
| Imprint: | Abacus |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 240 |
| Release Date: | 2 April 2001 |
| Weight: | 168g |
| Dimensions: | 196mm x 128mm x 16mm |
| Series: | Abacus |
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Compelling and very funny - DAILY TELEGRAPHA remarkable, enjoyable book … I’d definitely urge you to read it - New York TIMESAn astonishing literary debut - COSMOPOLITAN
Compelling and very funny - DAILY TELEGRAPH
A remarkable, enjoyable book … I’d definitely urge you to read it - New York TIMESAn astonishing literary debut - COSMOPOLITANAbout The Author
Barbara Kingsolver
Barbara Kingsolver was born in 1955 and grew up in rural Kentucky. Her books, in order of publication, are: The Bean Trees, Homeland, Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike, Animal Dreams, Another America, Pigs in Heaven, High Tide in Tucson, The Poisonwood Bible, Prodigal Summer, Small Wonder, Last Stand: America’s Virgin Lands, with photographer Annie Griffiths, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life, The Lacuna, Flight Behavior, Unsheltered, How To Fly (In 10,000 Easy Lessons), Demon Copperhead, and coauthored with Lily Kingsolver, Coyote’s Wild Home. Kingsolver was named one the most important writers of the 20th Century by Writers Digest, and in 2023 won a Pulitzer Prize for Demon Copperhead. She won the Women’s Prize for Fiction for both Demon Copperhead and The Lacuna, the first author in the history of the prize to win it twice. She has two daughters, Camille and Lily. She and her husband, Steven Hopp, live on a farm in southern Appalachia where they raise an extensive vegetable garden and Icelandic sheep.
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