The Bean Trees
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- Signed
- first
- Condition
- Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- ISBN 10
- 0060158638
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158637
- Seller
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Wheatfield, New York, United States
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About This Item
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
- A Good Read (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 18617
- Title
- The Bean Trees
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- Used - Fine in Near Fine dust jacket
- Edition
- First Edition; First Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060158638
- ISBN 13
- 9780060158637
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- Scranton, Pennsylvania
- Date Published
- 1988
- Keywords
- 0060158638, WEST, FICTION
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