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Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. 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, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's 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.… (mais)
A collection of essays on topics close to home for the author; writing, motherhood, life, freedom, individuality and navigating adulthood to mention a few.
A book to make you think and challenge your thinking. I will never agree with all of her positions, but I don't need to. I do need to read them, because they give insight into other ways of thinking, and they do it in a beautifully written way. Her honesty about her struggles, how and why she thinks and believes the way she does, can only be met with a listening ear.
Then there are the topics we can agree on. Motherhood. The value of life. The joy of watching nature unfold around us. The complexity of people and their ways. When I read her writing on these topics it sounds like poetry or song in my ears. I love the way she uses language to enter one's soul. ( )
I think I'm a bit jealous of her facility with words and the interesting pictures she paints. Personal essays are not my favorite thing to read, but I've liked her novels and her book about farming, so I checked this one out. The short pieces are a little all over the place, but interesting. Actually I'm most envious of her being able to just take off and live on the Canary Islands for a year! ( )
Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
for Steven, and for every singing miracle
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
When I told my mother I was making a book of my essays, many of which had been published previously in magazines, she responded with pure maternal advocacy: "Oh, good! I think there are some out there that I've missed." (Preface)
A hermit crab lives in my house. (High Tide in Tucson)
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
We can still do everything we could do when we were twenty...except now it hurts
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Informação do Conhecimento Comum em inglês.Edite para a localizar na sua língua.
Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. 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, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's 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.
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A book to make you think and challenge your thinking. I will never agree with all of her positions, but I don't need to. I do need to read them, because they give insight into other ways of thinking, and they do it in a beautifully written way. Her honesty about her struggles, how and why she thinks and believes the way she does, can only be met with a listening ear.
Then there are the topics we can agree on. Motherhood. The value of life. The joy of watching nature unfold around us. The complexity of people and their ways. When I read her writing on these topics it sounds like poetry or song in my ears. I love the way she uses language to enter one's soul. (