Prodigal Summer
of Barbara Kingsolver
Description
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.From her outpost in 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, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors 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 to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.
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Book Details
- Format Paperback
- Pages 444 pages
- Publisher Harper Perennial
- Publication Date 10/16/01
- First Publication 10/17/00
- Language English
- ISBN 9780060959036
- Edition Not informed
- Category Fiction
- Scenario ['Egg Fork, Zebulon County, Kentucky (United States)', 'Kentucky (United States)', 'Appalachia (United States)']
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