Prodigal Summer Contributor(s): Kingsolver, Barbara (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060959037 ISBN-13: 9780060959036 Publisher: Harper Perennial
WE WILL NOT BE UNDERSOLD! Click here for our low price guarantee Binding Type: Paperback - See All Available Formats & Editions Published: October 2001 Annotation: In a beautiful hymn to wildness, Kingsolver celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature and of nature itself. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate takes over the countryside, the novel's characters find their connections to one another in the forested mountains of southern Appalachia. |
Additional Information |
BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Small Town & Rural - Fiction | Political |
Dewey: FIC |
Lexile Measure: 870(Not Available) |
Physical Information: 1.2" H x 5.2" W x 7.8" L (0.75 lbs) 464 pages |
Themes: - Cultural Region - Appalachians - Cultural Region - South - Demographic Orientation - Rural - Seasonal - Summer |
Features: Ikids, Price on Product |
Review Citations: Newsweek 08/09/2010 pg. 54 |
Accelerated Reader Info |
Quiz #: 59169 Reading Level: 5.7 Interest Level: Upper Grades Point Value: 23.0 |
Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
Publisher Description: 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. |
Contributor Bio(s): Kingsolver, Barbara: - Barbara Kingsolver is the author of nine bestselling works of fiction, including the novels, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the prestigious Dayton Literary Peace Prize for her body of work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia. |
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