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Other Books by
Barbara Kingsolver |
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Animal Dreams
Another America
The Bean Trees
High Tide in Tucson
Holding the Line
Homeland
Pigs in Heaven
The Poisonwood Bible
Small Wonder (coming in April 2002) |
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Note... |
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 Visit the
publisher's web site for Barbara Kingsolver at
http://www.kingsolver.com/
Another site
that has information on Kingsolver's books can be found at the
Reading Guide.
You will notice
that Prodigal Summer has many people with biological knowledge. As it
happens, Kingsolver has an academic background in biology. |
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Current Selection
- March 2002
Prodigal Summer: A Novel
By Barbara Kingsolver
$14.00 paperback
464 pages
From the web site
www.kingsolver.com
"Prodigal Summer weaves together three
stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the
forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. At the
heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently
migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist,
watches the forest from her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin where she
is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her
most private spaces and confound her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm
several miles down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf
Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself
unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her
attachment to the land. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of
elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about
God, pesticides, and the complexities of a world neither of them expected" |