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Barbara Kingsolver's The Bean Trees
The Chaffey College Book 1999
THE AUTHOR


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Picture by Steven Hopp,
Kingsolver's Husband

 

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Barbara Kingsolver, 1995

 

 

 

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Hear Kingsolver Reading
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Links to Pages on Barbara Kingsolver

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Barbara Kingsolver's Official Web Site

Kelly Traylor's Barbara Kingsolver Page

Danny Mandel's Barbara Kingsolver Page

John Finnie's Barbara Kingsolver Page

Joan Ann Lansberry's Barbara Kingsolver Page

Brief Biography of Kingsolver

"Barbara Kingsolver" by George Brosi

Brief Description of "Signature: Barbara Kingsolver" video

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Links to Pages of Barbara Kingsolver Interviews

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David Gergen Interviews Barbara Kingsolver, 1995

Lit Chat with Barbara Kingsolver, 1995

Bookpage Interview with Barbara Kingsolver, 1998

Excerpt from Robin Epstein's Interview, 1996

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Links to Pages Containing Articles by Barbara Kingsolver

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"Stone Soup: What Does It Mean to be a Family, Anyway?"

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Links to Pages Containing Articles on Barbara Kingsolver and Her Work

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"Novel Approach" by Barbara Russi Sarnataro

Steve Brock's Review of Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven
(sequel to The Bean Trees)

Catherine Lazaroth's Review of Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

Leslie Chen's Review of Kingsolver's Pigs in Heaven

"Kingsolver: Power And Its Price" by Colette Bancroft

"Media Mix" by Margaret Regan

"Shafted: How Phelps Dodge Strips Miners Of Their Rights" by Alex Duval
(discusses Kingsolver's Holding the Line)

Sara Peyton's Review of The Poisonwood Bible

Patrick Sullivan's Review of The Poisonwood Bible

Eric Spanberg's Review of The Poisonwood Bible

Evelyn Van Wagner-Wilska's Review of The Poisonwood Bible

Links and Info on Barbara Kingsolvers' Animal Dreams

Tanya Ralli's Review of High Tide in Tucson

Carol Osbourne's Dissertation Abstract
(She discusses Kingsolver's Animal Dreams as a "recovery novel."

"Kingsolver Award to Honor Friends Groups"

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Links to Pages on The Bean Trees

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Kingsolver on the Novel's Setting

Harper Collins' Reader's Guide for The Bean Trees
(Don't miss page two of the Reading Guide)

The Bean Trees, A Student Webpage
(This page has six subpages with information from Kingsolver's official site, the novel, and an immigration website.)

The Bean Trees, Another Student Webpage
(This page has five subpages with information from Kingsolver's official site, the novel, and several webpages listed on the bibliography page.)

The Bean Trees, Yet Another Student Webpage
(This page has five subpages with information from Kingsolver's official site, the novel, and The World Book Encyclopedia.)

Jody Seim Timmins' Bean Trees Page

Review by Catherine Lazaroff

"Kingsolver's Ideal Family - Not Quite Socratic"
(a student paper on The Bean Trees)

Review by a Teenager, Leslie-Belle

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Odd Kingsolver Links

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A Poem Written for Barbara Kingsolver

Manuscripts and Letters Relating to the Publication of Kingsolver's Poem "Remember the Moon Survives"

Dates Kingsolver Documentary will be Shown

Rock Bottom Remainders (a band Kingsolver plays in)

Steven Hopp's Music (Kingsolver's husband)

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"Like the authors of women's fiction, more literary writers such as Anne Tyler, Barbara Kingsolver and Smiley are interested in the twists and turns of both romantic and familial love. But rather than telling us that these relationships are happy or haunted or complicated, they rely more on evoking the experience than their counterparts in women's fiction, re-creating it through sensory detail, careful observation and close psychological description." --excerpt from Diana Abu-Jaber, "Women's Fiction Tends to Congregate at the Middle of Things"

The Author Chapter One, "The One to Get Away"
Chapter Two, "New Year's Pig" Chapter Three, "Jesus is Lord Used Tires"
Chapter Four, "Tug Fork Water" Chapter Five, "Harmonious Space"
Chapter Six, "Valentine's Day" Chapter Seven, "How They Eat in Heaven"
Chapter Eight, "The Miracle of Dog Doo Park" Chapter Nine, "Ismene"
Chapter Ten, "The Bean Trees" Chapter Eleven, "Dream Angels"
Chapter Twelve, "Into the Terrible Night" Chapter Thirteen, "Night-Blooming Cereus"
Chapter Fourteen, "Guardian Saints" Chapter Fifteen, "Lake O' the Cherokees"
Chapter Sixteen, "Soundness of Mind and Freedom of Will" Chapter Seventeen, "Rhizobia"

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