The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 1853810371
- ISBN 13
- 9781853810374
- Seller
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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
- curtis paul books inc. (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 47048
- Title
- The Bean Trees
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Fine dust jacket
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition
- ISBN 10
- 1853810371
- ISBN 13
- 9781853810374
- Publisher
- Virago Press
- Place of Publication
- London
- Date Published
- 1989
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