Animal Dreams (P.S.) - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0062278509 ISBN 13: 9780062278500

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 2013

Synopsis

Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, "Animal Dreams" is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments.

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Review:

"Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent . . . Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book."-- "Chicago Tribune""Kingsolver probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom. Animal Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal."-- "New York Newsday""One of the year's best works of fiction." -- "Detroit News and Free Press""Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time . . . An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers." -- "Cosmopolitan""Rich, complex, witty . . . This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time."-- "Washington Post Book World""Kingsolver is giving a new voice to our literature. Animal Dreams solidly establishes Kingsolver as someone who will give her public more than one great book."-- "Los Angeles Times Book Review""An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul."-- "New York Daily News""A glorious tapestry . . . "Animal Dreams" is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams."-- "Denver Post"""Animal Dreams" literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect . . . "Animal Dreams" leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope."-- "Houston Post""Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it."-- "San FranciscoChronicle""Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind."-- "New York Times Book Review""A novel full of aching sadness--as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing."-- "Arizona Daily Star"

Book Description:

* A wonderful novel about unravelling a young woman's secret past.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 2013
• ISBN 10: 0062278509
• ISBN 13: 9780062278500
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 384