Name: Prodigal Summer
SKU: 1622039
Price: 1150.00 TWD
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Author: Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN: 9780060959036

Type

Physical Book

Author

Barbara Kingsolver

Publisher

Harper Perennial

Language

English

Pages

464

Format

Paperback

Dimensions

19.8x13.2x3 cm

Weight

0.34 kg.

ISBN

0060959037

ISBN13

9780060959036

Synopsis "Prodigal Summer"

National Bestseller"A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature." -- San Francisco ChronicleIn this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible, 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.

Barbara Kingsolver

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Novelist, essayist, and American poet, Barbara Kingsolver was born in Annapolis, Maryland, on April 8, 1955. She grew up in Kentucky and spent a brief period of time in Congo during her childhood.

Kingsolver studied Biology at DePauw University and the University of Arizona. Later, she began working as a freelance writer before dedicating herself to writing novels. In 2000, she created the Bellwether Prize with the goal of promoting literature in favor of social change.

In her literary work, she has written about social justice, biodiversity, and the relationship between people and their environment. Among her works are titles such as The Poisonwood Bible, The Lacuna (Women's Fiction Prize 2010), and Demon Copperhead (Pulitzer Prize 2023 along with Hernán Díaz's Trust and Women's Fiction Prize 2023)

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