The Bean Trees - Barbara Kingsolver [109]
Homeland and Other Stories
“EXTRAORDINARILY FINE, Barbara Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters…. The title story is PURE POETRY.”
—Russell Banks,
New York Times Book Review
“KINGSOLVER’S HUMANITY SOUNDS THE CLEAREST NOTE…telling us about characters in the middle of their days, who live as we really do, from one small incident of awareness to the next.”
—Los Angeles Times
“READ HOMELAND AND OTHER STORIES AND YOU WILL FEEL GLAD TO BE ALIVE. You are delighted by a gifted storyteller. You are strengthened by the toughness and tenderness she discerns in humanity’s daily rounds.”
—New York Newsday
Books by
Barbara Kingsolver
FICTION
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
NONFICTION
Small Wonder: Essays
High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
Holding the Line: Women in
the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
POETRY
Another America
Copyright
This book is a work of fiction. The characters, incidents, and dialogue are drawn from the author’s imagination and are not to be construed as real. Any resemblance to actual events or persons, living or dead, is entirely coincidental.
THE BEAN TREES. Copyright © 1998 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
EPub Edition © APRIL 2007 ISBN: 9780061809699
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
One: The One to Get Away
Two: New Year’s Pig
Three: Jesus Is Lord Used Tires
Four: Tug Fork Water
Five: Harmonious Space
Six: Valentine’s Day
Seven: How They Eat in Heaven
Eight: The Miracle of Dog Doo Park
Nine: Ismene
Ten: The Bean Trees
Eleven: Dream Angels
Twelve: Into the Terrible Night
Thirteen: Night-Blooming Cereus
Fourteen: Guardian Saints
Fifteen: Lake o’ the Cherokees
Sixteen: Soundness of Mind and Freedom of Will
Seventeen: Rhizobia
About the Author
Praise
Books by Barbara Kingsolver
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