The Beans of Egypt, Maine
By: Carolyn Chute
Edition: Warner Books ed.
Publisher: Warner Books
Published: 1986
Place of publication: New York
Language: eng
Number of pages: 238
ISBN-13: 9780446300100
Copyright date: 1985
Description: There are families like the Beans all over America. They live on the wrong side of town in mobile homes strung with Christmas lights all year around. 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', Maine, we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession for the whole swarming Bean tribe. Therecousin 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.

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