Chute, Carolyn;
The Beans of Egypt, Maine
Ticknor & Fields, 1985, 215 pages
ISBN 0899193145, 9780899193144
topics: | fiction | usa
Chronicles the lusty lives of the sprawling Bean family--brawling psychopath Uncle Rubie, perpetually pregnant Aunt Roberta, and the gentle but violent in defeat Beal--as they raucously and desperately struggle through their impoverished lives