Description
Title: Prodigal Summer
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780060959036
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Published: 2001
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Perennial Edition
Number of Pages: 464
Condition Note: New from the publisher
Publisher :
National Bestseller
“A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle
In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of the National Book Foundation’s Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel’s intriguing protagonists–a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer’s wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors–face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.
Prodigal Summer is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.
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