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Type of bind: Mass Market Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN num: 9780061097317
ISBN number: 0061097314
Label: HarperTorch
Manufacturer: HarperTorch
Quantity: 1
Page Count: 336
Printing Date: October 01, 1998
Publishing house: HarperTorch
Release Date: September 09, 1998
Sale Popularity Level: 5259
Studio: HarperTorch
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Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylour 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 Taylour 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.
Available for the very first time in mass-market, this edition of Barbara Kingsolver's bestselling novel, The Bean Trees, will be in stores everywhere in September. With two different but equally handsome covers, this book is a fine addition to your Kingsolver library.
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This book is twenty years old. This book is supposed to be good. Somehow it's a bestseller? This book is terrible! It does not have good descriptions, it conveys things poorly and over all a quarter of the story is driving! Do not read unless you like bad literature, enjoy. o_o
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Have you ironicaly ever been handed something that you were trying to avoid? In this book, The Bean Trees by Barbara Kingsolver, "Taylour Greer" or Missie runs or drives from her towns frequent young pregnancy histroy. On her journey to become something better than everybody back home, her fate brings her a child. We experience, as readers, the tradegy going through Taylor's mind as she deals with this new life put before her. Taylors from the small town and now living in Arizona she is eye opened with the racist acts more common in that part of the country. Taylour and the child, Turtle, meet many people who change their life and take small things that seem worthless and turn them into something beautiful. I would deffinately reccomend this book to every young teenage girl or mother. It givs great advice how to deal with different obstacles and many new realizations of our world that are put before the reader. Looking for a book that makes you appreciate yourself and others more? Pick up The Bean Trees and get yourself thrown into the fast moving life of Taylour Greer.
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Taylour is a high spirited and strong willed girl whose whole life has been lead in Kentucky. Taylour had three goals in her life: not to get pregnant, to leave Pittman County, and to change her name. She ended up buying a '55 Volkswagen bug and leaving Pittman County behind. She ends up with the name Taylour which she got from the very first town she stopped in. While on the desolate plains of Oklahoma she has a two year old Cherokee child placed into her care. Later on Taylour finds out the girl was physically abused and named the child Turtle after the way she clings on to everything like a snapping turtle. Taylour ends up in Tucson, Arizona where she meets up with a tough strange lady named Mattie who deals with illegal immigrants, a paranoid and self conscious mother Lou Ann who thinks there is nothing safe in the world, and Esparza and Esperanza, a Guatemalan couple, that help Taylour find out who she really is. Taylour is lead through the hardships and wonders of life with her friends. They help her through life in the way that the rhizobia help the bean trees through life.
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In this wonderful book of growth and maturity, many characters are challenged to make choices they would not have made in the beginning of the novel: Lou Ann kicking Angel out for good, Taylour driving Estefan and Esperanza to a safe house, and even Turtle when she talks again after almost being kidnapped. Throughout the book the characters growth and "burials" allows for newer and better things to grow. This is an excellent book that is definitely recommended to other high school girls.
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Barbara Kingsolver has stimulated the minds of readers through her book THE BEAN num TREES. In the novel, 22 year old Taylour Greer, a young woman searching for a different path in life, abandons her home town in Kentucky and travels down to the sunny state of Arizona. On her way to her new adventure Taylour is given a 3 year old child, who she names Turtle, and has no other option but including her into her life. This heartfelt novel tells the story of Taylour and Turtle as they grow and evolve their lives over time in a tire shop located in Tuscon, Arizona. Reading this book made me both tear and smile from its unexpected turns and captivating adventures. As piece of literature for all age groups to relate to, it is impossible to put it down. I recommend this novel to anyone in search of an entertaining story.
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