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Prodigal Summer: A Novel Paperback - 2001
by Kingsolver, Barbara
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In a beautiful hymn to wildness, Kingsolver celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature and of nature itself. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate takes over the countryside, the novel's characters find their connections to one another in the forested mountains of southern Appalachia.
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- Title Prodigal Summer: A Novel
- Author Kingsolver, Barbara
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Condition Used - Good
- Pages 464
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2001
- Bookseller's Inventory # G0060959037I3N10
- ISBN 9780060959036 / 0060959037
- Weight 0.75 lbs (0.34 kg)
- Dimensions 7.8 x 5.2 x 1.2 in (19.81 x 13.21 x 3.05 cm)
- Reading level 870
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Themes
- Cultural Region: Appalachians
- Cultural Region: South
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Seasonal: Summer
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Appalachian Region, Southern
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
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Summary
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.
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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.
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- Newsweek, 08/09/2010, Page 54