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Title: The Bean Trees : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-06-109731-4 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 Format: Mass Market Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.96 (310 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: An excellent novel
Comment: The novel The Bean Trees Is an excellent story written by a very capable author. Barbara Kingsolver creats very memorable characters in unforgetable places. That combinded with a smooth flowing plot makes The Bean Trees an easy novel to read and still gets the point across. The Theme of freedom and trusting in yourself is prevelent in this book. A young Kentucky girl, Taylor, leaves home in a broken down Volkswagon bug to seek her destiny and along the way picks up a traveling companion, a 3 year old baby.Another woman, Lou ann, is left by her husband and stranded with nothing except her unborn child.When these to ladies get together in the story they accomplish some pretty heafty goals. These characters are also accompaanied by Mattie, the tire woman that give Taylor a job and smuggles asylees into the country. Edna and Virge friends of Lou Ann who watch the children while they are at work. And Estevan and Esperanza Two asylees searching for a better life. The author style of this novel is free written. She uses every day language in the first person view through Taylor's eyes. Overall this is a very good novel excpet I don't like the ending very well. Thats why it only got 4 stars but it is definatly worth reading.
Rating: 5
Summary: Full of heart-felt emotion
Comment: Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor Greer grew up poor in rural Kentucky with the goals of avoiding pregnancy and getting away from her home town. But when she heads west with high hopes and a barely-functional car, she meets the human condition head-on. By the time Taylor arrives in Tucson, Arizona, she has taken responsibility for 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.
"The Bean Trees," by Barbara Kingsolver, gives readers something that's increasingly hard to find today -- a character to believe in, laugh with and admire. Talyor Greer is a feisty woman who readers love to relate to. Kingsolver uses character development by showing Taylor's compassion and determined spirit when she encounters new-found Central American refugees. The simple use of dialogue shows the feelings of the characters. From the use of dialogue, the reader experiences the human condition through Taylor's eyes.
Rating: 5
Summary: A RIOT of a book!
Comment: the way words are used.... AMAZING! The thunderstorm sent shivers up my spine!
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Title: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 006109868X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060921145 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060959037 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060930535 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: Homeland and Other Stories by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060917016 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 23 May, 1990 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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