Flight Behavior - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062124307 ISBN 13: 9780062124302

Publisher: Harper Large Print, 2012

Synopsis

Pub Date: 2012-11-06 Pages: 688 Language: English Publisher: HarperCollins US Dellarobia Turnbow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen Now. after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing. farm. she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secret tryst. but instead encounters a shocking sight:. a silent. forested valley filled with what looks like a lake of fire. She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle. but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists. religious leaders and the media. The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists. opportunists. sightseers . and a striking biologist with his own stake in the...

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Review

"Drawing on both her Appalachian roots and her background in biology, Kingsolver delivers a passionate novel on the effects of global warming."--Booklist, Starred Review

"With her powerful new novel, Kingsolver delivers literary fiction that conveys an urgent social message... a clarion call about climate change, too lucid and vivid for even skeptics to ignore."--Publishers Weekly, Starred Review

..".Enthralling...Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings."--Oprah.com

"A dazzling page-turner"--Elle

"Kingsolver has written one of the more thoughtful novels about the scientific, financial and psychological intricacies of climate change. And her ability to put these silent, breathtakingly beautiful butterflies at the center of this calamitous and noisy debate is nothing short of brilliant."--Ron Charles, Washington Post

"Dellarobia is a smart, fierce, messy woman, and one can't help rooting for her to find her wings."--Entertainment Weekly

"Dellarobia is appealingly complex as a smart, curious, warmhearted woman desperate to-no resisting the metaphor here-trade her cocoon for wings."--O, the Oprah Magazine

"One of the gifts of a Kingsolver novel is the resplendence of her prose. She takes palpable pleasure in the craft of writing, creating images that stay with the reader long after her story is done...(a) majestic and brave new novel."--New York Times Book Review

"Kingsolver has constructed a deeply affecting microcosm of a phenomenon that is manifesting in many different tragic ways, in communities and ecosystems all around the globe. This is a fine and complex novel."--Seattle Times

"So captivating is this grand, suspenseful plot and the many subplots rising and falling beneath it that it takes some time before we realize what this story is really about -- climate change."--Minneapolis Star Tribune

Book Description

Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change by Barbara Kingsolver, the Orange Prize-winning author of The Lacuna and The Poisonwood Bible.

Edition details

• Publisher: Harper Large Print
• Publication date: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0062124307
• ISBN 13: 9780062124302
• Binding: Paperback
• Language: English
• Number of pages: 688