Prodigal Summer: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction - Hardcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0571206387 ISBN 13: 9780571206384

Publisher: Faber & Faber, 2000

Synopsis

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.



From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.

Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.

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About the Author

Barbara Kingsolver is the global prize-winning and bestselling author of novels including Unsheltered, Flight Behaviour, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible and Demon Copperhead, as well as books of poetry, essays and creative non-fiction. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages. She has won many awards for fiction including the Pulitzer Prize, the James Tait Black Prize, and is the only author to have won the Women's Prize twice. She lives with her family in southern Appalachia.

Edition details

• Publisher: Faber & Faber
• Publication date: 2000
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571206387
• ISBN 13: 9780571206384
• Binding: Hardcover
• Number of pages: 464