The Beans of Egypt, Maine

Klappentext 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. Zusammenfassung The Beans of Egypt! Maine introduced the world to the notorious! unforgettable Bean clan of small town Egypt! Maine?from wild man Reuben! an alcoholic who can’t seem to keep himself out of jail; to his cousins! the perpetually pregnant Roberta! and Beal! a man gentle by temperament but violent in defeat who marries his pious neighbor! Earlene Pomerleau before poverty kills him. Through her story of the Beans’s struggle with their inner demons to survive against hardship and societal ignorance! Chute emerged as a writer of immense humanity and unparalleled insight into a world most of us knew little of?if we’d recognized it at all.

Product details

• Authors: Carolyn Chute
• Publisher: Atlantic monthly press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 18.09.2008
• EAN: 9780802143594
• ISBN: 978-0-8021-4359-4
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 210 mm x 21 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION / Literary, Maine, Fiction - General, Family life fiction, Local & family history, nostalgia, Relating to the stages of life, c 1980 to c 1989, Roberta;Beal;Earlene, Maine;Egypt, family;new england;rural;hardship