false 14256 10 Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels <I>The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams,</I> and <I>Pigs in Heaven.</I><BR><BR>In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.<BR><BR>In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. 3464735 1995 High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never total:2876|5:832|4:1202|3:726|2:100|1:16| 2876 11362 3590 194 4 4 false false Fri Jul 13 14:29:16 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 14:34:07 -0700 2007
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My favorite of the essays was "Jabberwocky" where she discusses art as politics. AS in her other books her use of language is phenomenal and the bok provided...more...]]> 5 1 false false Sun Oct 28 18:07:41 -0700 2007 Sun Oct 28 18:21:04 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 false false Fri Jul 20 16:28:58 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 20 16:32:17 -0700 2007 more...]]> 4 1 false false Sun Jun 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Wed Jun 18 15:28:57 -0700 2008 Sun Jun 22 09:34:44 -0700 2008
Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend. ......more...]]> 5 1 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2000 Mon Jul 09 21:47:38 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 13 16:04:24 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Thu Jan 29 00:00:00 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:10:53 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 29 15:29:48 -0800 2009
However, she seems somewhat out of touch wit...more...]]> 5 1 false false Wed Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1997 Sun Dec 16 09:06:01 -0800 2007 Sun Dec 16 09:21:00 -0800 2007 The rest of the essays: I laughed out loud more times than I can say, and I felt more connected to humanity as I read them. This is a book I go back to and re-read over and ov...more...]]> 4 1 false false Fri Jul 06 13:53:13 -0700 2007 Fri Jul 06 13:56:05 -0700 2007 more...]]> 5 1 true false Wed Feb 13 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 07:00:28 -0800 2008 Wed Feb 13 12:27:30 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 1 false false Thu Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1998 Fri Aug 31 11:00:25 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 31 16:00:20 -0700 2007 4 1 false false Sun Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1995 Fri Feb 22 14:20:42 -0800 2008 Fri Feb 22 14:25:16 -0800 2008
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But lest you think it's a "political" book, there ...more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu Aug 30 13:03:47 -0700 2007 Thu Aug 30 13:04:39 -0700 2007 5 1 false false Thu Feb 01 00:00:00 -0800 2007 Sun Apr 08 14:50:46 -0700 2007 Tue Mar 04 07:51:30 -0800 2008 4 1 false false Wed Aug 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 10:35:31 -0700 2007 Fri Aug 17 10:37:05 -0700 2007