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The Beans of Egypt, Maine /

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Warner Books, 1986, c1985.Edition: Warner Books edDescription: 238 p. ; 18 cmISBN:
  • 0446300101
  • 9780446300100
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 813.5
LOC classification:
  • PS3553.H8 B4 1986
Other classification:
  • HU 9800
Contents:
Earlene -- 1. Lizzie, Annie, and Rosie's rescue of me with blue cake -- The Beans -- 2. Merry merry -- Earlene -- 3. The sons of God -- The Beans -- 4. Buzzy Atkinson's paper-plate kiss -- 5. Tall woman love -- 6. Moon on Cole Deveau -- 7. Earlene's yellow hair -- 8. The grave -- Earlene -- 9. Warren olsen's look of love -- 10. Meat -- 11. Home fire.
Summary: 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.
Holdings
Item type Home library Collection Call number Vol info Copy number Status Date due Barcode
F F Chamberlin Free Public Library Fiction F CHU (Browse shelf(Opens below)) PS3553.H87 B4 1985 1 Available 34562000007467

Earlene -- 1. Lizzie, Annie, and Rosie's rescue of me with blue cake -- The Beans -- 2. Merry merry -- Earlene -- 3. The sons of God -- The Beans -- 4. Buzzy Atkinson's paper-plate kiss -- 5. Tall woman love -- 6. Moon on Cole Deveau -- 7. Earlene's yellow hair -- 8. The grave -- Earlene -- 9. Warren olsen's look of love -- 10. Meat -- 11. Home fire.

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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