2. BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is a novelist, essayist and
poet. Raised in rural Kentucky and briefly lived in the Congo in
early childhood. Kingsolver earned degrees in biology at DePauw
University and the University of Arizona and worked as a
freelance writer before she began to write novels.
Here work often talks about topics such as social justice,
biodiversity and the interaction between human beings and their
communities and environments. Each of his books published
since 1993 has been listed on the New York Times Best Seller.
Kingsolver has received numerous awards, including the Literary
Peace Prize, UK Orange Prize for Fiction 2010, The Lacuna, and
the National Humanities Medal. She has been nominated for the
PEN Faulkner Award and the Pulitzer Prize.
In 2000, Kingsolver established the Bellwether Prize to support
the "literature of social change."
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4. WORKS
- The Bean Trees, 1988.
- Holding the Line, 1983, 1989.
- Homeland and Other Stories, 1989.
- Animal Dreams, 1990.
- Another America, 1992.
- Pigs in Heaven, 1993.
- High Tide in Tucson, 1995.
- The Poissonwood Bible, 1998.
- Prodigial Summer, 2000.
- Small Wonder: Essays, 2002.
- Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, 2007.
- The Lacuna, 2009.
- Flight Behavior , 2012.
5. THE BEAN TREES ARGUMENT
The Bean Trees is the first novel by American writer Barbara
Kingsolver.
The protagonist of the novel is named Taylor Greer, a native
of Kentucky. She sets out to leave home travel west, and
finds herself in Oklahoma near Cherokee territory. As Taylor
stops in the town, a woman suddenly approaches, leaves a
small child, and leaves with no further explanation. Not
knowing what else to do, Taylor decides to care for the child.
The novel traces the experiences of Taylor and the child,
whom Taylor names Turtle. Covering Turtle's early
childhood, the story includes a colorful cast of characters
6. ARGUMENT FRAGMENT
Talks about a landscape in which is situated Tucson Valley.
It’s in a cradle of mountains with mounds, hillocks and some
dry stream beds.
7. I HOPE YOU LIKED IT.
By: Alejandra García Ruíz.
