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Iscriviti per consentire a LibraryThing di scoprire se ti piacerà questo libro. Attualmente non vi sono conversazioni su questo libro. Victoria A great book about evolution. It follows the summer of three people-a 46 yr old female living alone as a National Forest employee who gets caught up with a 29 yr old; a 26 yr old woman whose spouse dies after a year of marriage and she must now run the family farm and a 80 yr old man trying to come up with a new variety of chestnut tree. It is about the effects of man to man and species to species in the world of survival. Listening to this was like a visit home. The interwoven stories are quite enjoyable in their own right. But it is Kingsolver's unerring touch with the language -- the rhythms and the idioms of the southern Blue Ridge -- that lift this book above a mere character study. The ecological lessons woven into the stories and dialog are icing on the cake. [Audiobook note: Kingsolver herself narrates the book. This, too, is a gift because an outsider can never quite get the southern Appalachian accent right.]
Readers hoping for the emotional intensity and wide-angle vision of ''The Poisonwood Bible,'' Kingsolver's magnificent 1998 epic about a self-destructing missionary family in the newly independent Congo, will most likely be disappointed. But the legions of fans primed on earlier books like ''Animal Dreams'' and ''The Bean Trees'' will find themselves back on familiar, well-cleared ground of plucky heroines, liberal politics and vivid descriptions of the natural world. In an improbably appealing book with the feeling of a nice stay inside a terrarium, Ms. Kingsolver means to illustrate the nature of biological destiny and provide enlightened discourse on various ecological matters. Appartiene alle Collane EditorialiÈ contenuto inHomeland and Other Stories | Animal Dreams | The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven | The Poisonwood Bible | Prodigal Summer di Barbara Kingsolver Ha come guida per lo studenteMenzioniElenchi di rilievo
Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself. It weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives amid the mountains and farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, this novel's intriguing protagonists face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they necessarily share a place. Non sono state trovate descrizioni di biblioteche |
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