Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) - Softcover

Barbara Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060852569 ISBN 13: 9780060852566

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2008

Synopsis

Author Barbara Kingsolver and her family abandoned the industrial-food pipeline to live a rural life--vowing that, for one year, they'd only buy food raised in their own neighborhood, grow it themselves, or learn to live without it. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is an enthralling narrative that will open your eyes in a hundred new ways to an old truth: You are what you eat.

About this title

Review:

"Engaging.Absorbing.Lovely food writing.[Kingsolver] succeeds at adopting the warm tone of a confiding friend." -- Corby Kummer, New York Times Book Review

"Highly digestible.Engaging." -- Ellen Goodman, Boston Globe

"[Written] with passion and hope.This novelist paints a compelling big picture-broad and ambitious, with nary an extraneous stroke." -- Rocky Mountain News

"Kingsolver.adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity." -- Christian Science Monitor

"A terrific effort. The delight for readers.is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food." -- The Oregonian (Portland)

"A lovely book. " -- Los Angeles Times

"Full.of zest and sometimes ribald humor. Reading this book will make you hungry." -- Raleigh News & Observer

"Charming, zestful, funny and poetic.a serious book about important problems." -- Washington Post Book World

A lovely book. --Los Angeles Times

"Classy and disarming, substantive and entertaining, earnest and funny....Kingsolver takes the genre to a new literary level."--Publishers Weekly (starred review)

Book Description:

A year in the life of bestselling novelist ,Barbara Kingsolver, and her family as they try to eat local produce, grow their own, and reduce their ecological footprint

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2008
• ISBN 10: 0060852569
• ISBN 13: 9780060852566
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 400
• Illustrator: Richard A. Houser