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Prodigal Summer: A Novel
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Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
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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.
PRODUCT DESCRIPTIONS:
Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54
EAN: 9780060959036
Feature: ISBN13: 9780060959036
ISBN: 0060959037
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 464
Publication Date: 2001-10-01
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: 2001-10-16
Studio: Harper Perennial
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• ISBN13: 9780060959036
• Condition: New
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CUSTOMER REVIEWS:
Well worth a read. -
Set in Eastern Kentucky (my old stomping grounds), Prodigal Summer follows the lives of three main characters as they confront heady problems like man vs. nature and progress vs. tradition, and stumble through love, death, family and self-meaning. I thoroughly enjoyed the book and appreciated the long treatises on coyotes, luna moths, and various plants native to the area, although I could have done with shorter descriptions. It was interesting to think about how similar these people's lives were to the animal/plant they were connected to, and to see how all the lives (human/animal/plant) were interwoven so delicately and perfectly.
Kingsolver presents an entire natural environment to the reader from a human viewpoint, but with a keen eye on how all natural beings live in and affect the environment around them. This book is filled with pleasant surprises that I didn't understand fully until I was fairly far into the book...for example, the title of the book doesn't have a lot of meaning until the last few chapters, the chapter titles have layers of meaning, and the last chapter itself is beautiful and weaves the entire book together.
Well worth a read. Only downfall for me was that it had a little too much flora and fauna description for my taste.
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A beautiful read! -
When i first started this book, I wrote, "Kingsolver seduces the reader into the book with her lyrical and poetic writing.". If I'd only known how prophetic that was! This is a beautiful book to be read slowly and savored.
The story takes place over one summer and tells three stories of love. The language and phrasing is so beautiful that I had to stop periodically and let what I had read sink in. It literally took my breath away in so many places.
This is not a "beach read". You need time to absorb all the beauty that Kingsolver gives you.
I feel privileged to have been able to read it. I'd recommend it to anyone who really loves to read and loves language used at its best!
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A very saisfying eco-novel -
This low-key eco-novel grew on me, organically, which is fitting given its subject. Parallel story lines all have as a theme the emotional and moral commitment of the characters to sustainable human life in the modern world. It is not in the least preachy, and the characters are not proselytizers, but rather sympathetic personalities seeking to fit into a web of interdependent fellow persons and other life, both animal and vegetable. The forest ranger with a brief for coyotes, the young widow who finds redemption in raising goats and rescuing a girl on the verge of marginalization, the unreconstructed misanthrope who is overcome by his own, fought-against instinct for emotional survival: These are the characters whose tales comprise a very satisfying novel.
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This is a book about three women, one in her twenties, one in her forties and one in her seventies. But I'm an older man and I loved it. Beautifully written woth a profound understanding of human nature and relationships.
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