Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

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This work weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the mountains and small farms of southern Appalachia. It portrays various people who find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.

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Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver

From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own.A few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer embraces pure thematic originality and demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that render it an inspiring work of fiction.
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ISBN 13 9780571206438
ISBN 10 0571206433
Title Prodigal Summer
Author Barbara Kingsolver
Condition Unavailable
Binding Type Paperback
Publisher Faber & Faber
Year published 2000-11-20
Number of pages 320
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