| Other author/creator | Chute, Carolyn inscriber. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, Susan, 1931- former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Garrett, George, 1929-2008 former owner. |
| Other author/creator | Chute, Carolyn autographer, inscriber. |
| Subject |
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 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, Maine we meet the God-fearing Earlene Pomerleau and experience her obsession with 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. Vividly told, at times both funny and sad, Chute gives life and dignity to an unforgettable cast of American characters. |
| Local note | Stuart Wright Coll. copy includes cartoon drawing of the Garretts in Virginia and the Chutes in Maine on verso of h.t. with "Thank you for everything!!!!!" Inscribed on t.p. "For George & Susan, Love, Carolyn [Chute] OXOXOXO March 7, 1985." Includes dust jacket. Laid in: Publicity photograph of Carolyn Chute by Joannah Hawkes Bowie (ca. 1985) Black & white. Stuart Wright Book Collection #20.1. See also related manuscript material in the Stuart Wright Collection, #1169, George Garrett Papers, in Joyner Library Special Collections. |
| Local note | Joyner Rare copy includes autograph of author on title page. |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Wright Coll. copy Purchased from Stuart Wright, 2010 |
| Acquisitions source |
Joyner Rare copy gift of Catherine Billingsley, 2016. |
| LCCN | 84008840 |
| ISBN | 0899193145 : |
| ISBN | 9780899193144 |
| ISBN | 0899193625 (pbk.) |
| ISBN | 9780899193625 (pbk.) |
