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| Original Title: | The Secret Life of Bees |
| ISBN: | 0142001740 (ISBN13: 9780142001745) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Lily Owens, Rosaleen, August Boatwright, June Boatwright, May Boatwright, T. Ray Owens |
| Setting: | United States of America South Carolina(United States) Tiburon, South Carolina,1964(United States) |
| Literary Awards: | Orange Prize Nominee for Fiction Longlist (2002), Book Sense Book of the Year Award for Paperback (2004), Lincoln Award Nominee (2005), Missouri Gateway Readers Award Nominee (2005) |
Sue Monk Kidd
Paperback | Pages: 302 pages Rating: 4.05 | 1078321 Users | 29524 Reviews
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Set in South Carolina in 1964, The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of Lily Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. When Lily's fierce-hearted black "stand-in mother," Rosaleen, insults three of the deepest racists in town, Lily decides to spring them both free. They escape to Tiburon, South Carolina--a town that holds the secret to her mother's past. Taken in by an eccentric trio of black beekeeping sisters, Lily is introduced to their mesmerizing world of bees and honey, and the Black Madonna. This is a remarkable novel about divine female power, a story women will share and pass on to their daughters for years to come.
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| Title | : | The Secret Life of Bees |
| Author | : | Sue Monk Kidd |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 302 pages |
| Published | : | January 28th 2003 by Penguin Books (first published November 8th 2001) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Historical. Historical Fiction. Science Fiction. Fantasy |
Rating Appertaining To Books The Secret Life of Bees
Ratings: 4.05 From 1078321 Users | 29524 ReviewsNotice Appertaining To Books The Secret Life of Bees
4 ½ stars. They say you cant judge a book by its cover. Weird, lately thats what Ive been doing and its working... All the hype brought me to it; the cover and title hooked me. A great story chock full of symbolism, I suppose its like an adult Aesops fable featuring bees. Timeline early sixties, place racially-charged South Carolina, its an inspirational and decidedly feminist book with an interesting touch of spiritualism. The courageous story of a young girls escape from a bitter and abusive
Read it. Enjoyed it. Any day now I expect to be entirely swallowed up by my own home-grown vagina. If you've read The Help, you don't need to read this. One contemporary coming of age book about a white southern girl amongst black women discovering life in 1960s is plenty. Sue Monk Kidd's explosively popular (I'm going to go out on a very sturdy limb and guess that this was an Oprah book) The Secret Life of Bees is a perfectly enjoyable read that any mother would love. Oh the imagery, the
To me, the difference between is a good book and a great book is whether you have to suspend disbelief or whether you just believe. I became curious about The Secret Life of Bees when I saw the preview for the upcoming movie in the theater. It looked mildly interesting and overly sugary. You know, one of those feel good stories about people coming together despite racial differences. Its been done a gazillion times and the stories are usually trite and maudlin. (I will say that the movie looks
Fourteen year old Lily was so tired of her father yelling at her, forcing punishment on her almost daily, accusing her of things she didnt do so when Rosaleen, her nanny since her mothers death when she was just four years old, was arrested and beaten by white men with the police looking on - Lily decided enough was enough. The racial prejudice in South Carolina in the 1960s was oppressive and cruel Lily couldnt work out why skin colour made such a difference.With no plan other than to get
This was a harmless, heart warming book that did not change my life or enrich my thinking in any large way - except perhaps that I am slightly less afraid of bees. One thing that is a slight pet peeve with me is the healing power apparently inherent in the culture of the 'other'. Here is the formula: 1 caucasian person, hurt and broken by the world they live in, be it by family, work or environment + 1 minority culture (black or asian is fine) = that one caucasian person finding the true wonders
The Secret Life of Bees, Sue Monk KiddThe Secret Life of Bees is a book by author Sue Monk Kidd. Published: November 8th 2001. The Secret Life of Bees tells the story of a 14-year-old white girl, Lily Melissa Owens, whose life has been shaped around the blurred memory of the afternoon her mother was killed. She lives in a house with her abusive father, whom she refers to as T. Ray. They have a no-nonsense maid, Rosaleen, who acts as a surrogate mother for Lily. The book opens with Lily's
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