Prodigal Summer
Barbara Kingsolver(Author)
Faber & Faber (Publisher)
Published on 4. June 2001
Book
Paperback/Softback
464 pages
978-0-571-20648-3 (ISBN)
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Description
From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours, tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world.
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"'(Barbara Kingsolver's)...marvellously subtle and compelling tale of a southern Appalachian farming community in tense interplay with the wilderness on its doorstep, contains a deft parable of humankind's place in nature. Prodigal Summer is a rich and compulsive read. Its acute and sensuous observation of the natural world reveals an unexpected beauty, as it traces human love in the flight of a luna moth.' Guardian"More details
Language
English
Place of publication
London
United Kingdom
Dimensions
Height: 198 mm
Width: 127 mm
ISBN-13
978-0-571-20648-3 (9780571206483)
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Barbara Kingsolver
Prodigal Summer
Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction
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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many novels including The Poisonwood Bible, Pigs in Heaven, and Homeland, all published by Faber. She lives with her husband and daughter in southern Arizona and in the mountains of southern Appalachia.