| Record Number |
832181 |
| ISBN |
034911417X (paperback) |
| 9780349114170 (paperback) |
| Author |
Kingsolver, Barbara author. |
| Title |
The bean trees / Barbara Kingsolver. |
| Publisher/Date |
London : Abacus, 2001, c1988. |
| Pagination etc. |
232 pages ; 21 cm. |
| Contents note |
Originally published: United States : Harper and Row, 1988. |
| Summary Note |
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 the guardian of an abandoned baby girl she calls Turtle. In Tuscon they encounter an extraordinary array of people, and with their help, Taylor builds herself and her sweet, stunned child a life. |
| Subject |
Young women -- Travel -- West (U.S.)Fiction |
| Indian children -- North America -- Fiction |
| Automobile travel -- Fiction |
| Friendship -- Fiction |
| Orphans -- Fiction |
| Middle West -- Fiction |
| Shelf Location |
F KING |
