The Bean Trees. - Couverture souple

Kingsolver, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 034911417X ISBN 13 : 9780349114170

Editeur : Abacus, 2001

Synopsis

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 people, and with their help Taylor builds herself an her sweet, stunned child a life.

'Compelling and very funny' Daily Telegraph

'Remarkable' New York Times

'An astonishing literary debut' Cosmopolitan

'The work of a visionary... It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling' Los Angeles Times

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

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 people, and with their help Taylor builds herself an her sweet, stunned child a life.

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Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Abacus
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 034911417X
• ISBN 13: 9780349114170
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 240
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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