Program Title:
The Bean Trees
PRA Archive #:
SZ0745.05a
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The Bean Trees / Barbara Kingsolver| produced by Tom Hansell. - SERIES: Front porch stories| no. 5 The story of how two women from East Kentucky come to live together in Tucson, Arizona. One woman, Marietta Grier, changes her name to escape from Pitman County by driving West as far as her '55 V.W. Bug will take her. The other woman, LuAnn Ruiz, marries a rodeo cowboy who abandons her in Tucson after she becomes pregnant. CONTENT: Grier changes her name to Taylor, leaves Pitman County, and breaks a rocker arm in her V.W. while in the Cherokee Nation. - RECORDED: 1992.
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Item duration:
30:00
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