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Title: Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-06-095903-7 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.91 (362 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: A delightful entwined story
Comment: Barbara Kingsolver's "Prodigal Summer" has entwined three stories into a great novel of "extravagant procreation". Her scientific outlook at life in the Appalachian Mountains is a delight. The first story tells of a fiesty hermit forest ranger, Deanna Wolfe, who meets Eddie Bondo. Eddie is there to kill a new family of coyotes as Deanna tries to save them. During this entanglement, a romantic twist is involved also. The second story tells of a widow, Lusa. She tries to determine her life's next path while dealing with her in-laws. During this difficult time, Lusa creates a plan on saving the Widener farm. The third story tells of two elderly people, Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawlins. Garnett is old fashioned with the way he lives his life and does his farming. Whereas Nannie utilizes open-mindedness in her life with organic living and organic farming. These three stories all take place and overlap each other in Egg Fork in the Appalachian Mountains. I would recommend this book.
Rating: 5
Summary: Outstanding Book
Comment: I don't like much contemporary fiction and didn't expect to like this one. The Poisonwood Bible was a good read, but all through it I kept thinking of works by Peter Matthiessen, Paul Bowles, Malcolm Lowry, and Paul Theroux.
Surprise: Prodigal Summer was superb. Remarkable, poetic language, archetypal (not stereotypical) characters, evocative description, a fascinating plot of interlocking stories, and throughout a point of view about the real world and its problems.
Others readers who object to Kingsolver as "preachy" probably have a hard time with Dickens, Dreiser, Norris, Dostoevsky, Stendhal ...
This is a helluva first-rate writer, one of the most articulate alive, with heavy duty talent and informed, principled opinions, all evident in Prodigal Summer.
Rating: 3
Summary: Disappointed
Comment: After reading some of Kingsolver's other fiction, most especially Poisonwood Bible, I was very disappointed in this book. I read more than half of it, then decided not to waste my time and I quit.
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Title: The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060930535 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $15.00 |
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Title: The Bean Trees : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0061097314 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 006109868X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060921145 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Small Wonder : Essays by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060504080 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 15 April, 2003 List Price(USD): $12.95 |
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