Placeholder text

Go to cart

Prodigal Summer

By Barbara Kingsolver

Prodigal Summer Contemporary literature

Prodigal Summer

0 - Used - good
Description
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.
Product details
Binding:
Paperback
Number of Pages:
464
Release Date:
2001-10-01
Publication Date:
2001-10-16
Publisher:
HarperCollins
Languages:
Original: English
ISBN10:
0060959037
ISBN13:
9780060959036
GPSR Manufacturer Reference:
[email protected]
Weight:
358 g
Height:
135 cm
Width:
207 cm
Thickness:
31 cm
Currently sold out