The Beans of Egypt, Maine /
There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In The Beans Of Egypt, Main we meet the God-feari...
| Основен автор: | Chute, Carolyn. |
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| Формат: | Книга |
| Език: | English |
| Публикувано: |
New York :
Warner Books,
1986, c1985.
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| Издание: | Warner Books ed. |
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There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights year round. The women are often pregnant, the men drunk and just out of jail, and the children too numerous to count. In The Beans Of Egypt, Main we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe. There's Cousin Rubie, a boozer and a brawler, tall Aunt Roberta, the earth mother surrounded by countless, clinging babies, and Beal, Sensitive, often gentle, but doomed by the violence within him. ... Cover. |
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| Физически характеристики: |
238 p. ; 18 cm. |
| ISBN: |
0446300101 9780446300100 |