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Bezig met laden... The bean trees : a novel (editie 1989)door Barbara Kingsolver
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 Barbara Kingsolver can write. On any page of this accomplished first novel, you can find a striking image or fine dialogue or a telling bit of drama. Onderdeel van de reeks(en)Turtle (1) Onderdeel van de uitgeversreeks(en)Harper Perennial Olive Editions (2011 Olive) Is opgenomen inThe Complete Fiction: The Bean Trees, Homeland, Animal Dreams, Pigs in Heaven door Barbara Kingsolver Heeft als studiegids voor studentenPrijzenErelijsten
Clear-eyed and spirited, Taylor 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 Taylor 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. Geen bibliotheekbeschrijvingen gevonden. |
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 Google Books — Bezig met laden...GenresDewey Decimale Classificatie (DDC)813.54Literature English (North America) American fiction 20th Century 1945-1999LC-classificatieWaarderingGemiddelde: (3.96)
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"Missy" Greer made it through high school and a few years post-grad in her small Kentucky town without getting married or pregnant, and now she's saved up enough to buy a car and get out of town, with her mother's blessing. On her way west, she renames herself Taylor, but at a stop in Oklahoma, a woman hands her a baby and insists she keep it. With the child - dubbed Turtle for the way she clings - in tow, Taylor continues west until she drives over glass and has to stop in Tucson, Arizona. Despite her fear of exploding tires, she finds work with Mattie at Jesus Is Lord Tires, and finds a place to live with fellow Kentuckian Lou-Ann, whose husband Angel has left her to return to the rodeo circuit.
As Taylor adjusts to the southwest and motherhood, she realizes that Mattie is helping refugees from Guatemala and elsewhere. She makes friends with Esteban and Esperanza, and when they're forced to move, Taylor drives them back east to a safe house in Oklahoma - but first, they try to find Turtle's relatives so Taylor can officially adopt her. Their effort fails, but Taylor concocts a risky plan: Esteban and Esperanza pose as Turtle's biological parents, and without ID for any of the three of them, an Oklahoma City official approves the paperwork (setting up for the sequel, Pigs in Heaven, set a few years later). (