THE BEAN TREES [Signed]

Kingsolver, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0060175796 / ISBN 13: 9780060175795

Published by Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY, 1998

About this Item

Octavo, 261 pages. In Very Good minus condition with a Very Good condition dust jacket. Gold spine with black lettering. Dust jacket is wrapped in a mylar covering, price is clipped, has mild shelving wear, and stains on the rear cover. Boards have bending wear along the spine head and tail edges. Textblock has mild shelving wear, and stains along the fore edge. Signed flat by Barbara Kingsolver on the title page. Shelved Room C. 1391165. Special Collections. First Tenth Anniversary Edition, First Printing.

Seller Inventory # 1391165

Bibliographic Details

• Title: THE BEAN TREES [Signed]
• Publisher: Harper & Row, Publishers, New York, NY
• Publication Date: 1998
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060175796
• ISBN 13: 9780060175795
• Binding: Hardcover
• Edition: 1st Edition
• Dust Jacket Condition: Dust Jacket Included
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
  • Literature

About this title

Synopsis

Barbara Kingsolver's 1988 debut novel is a classic workof American fiction. Now a standard in college literature classes across thenation, and a book that appears in translation across the globe, The BeanTrees is not only a literary masterpiece but a popular triumph—anarrative that readers worldwide have taken into their hearts. The Los Angeles Times calls The Bean Trees “the work of a visionary. . . . It leaves you open-mouthed and smiling.”

About the Author

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.