Small Wonder - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

4.03

10,784 ratings by Goodreads

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0571215769 ISBN 13: 9780571215768

Publisher: Faber and Faber, 2002

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In this collection of essays, the author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the author's small daughter.

Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too. In the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on - sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive - Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

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Review:

?Observant, imaginative, and both lucid and impassioned.?Book Magazine ?This book of essays by Barbara Kingsolver is like a visit from a cherished old friend.?Publishers Weekly (starred review) ?Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of nature's complex mechanisms.?San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"Essays . [of] great skill and wisdom." -- Booklist

Essays [of] great skill and wisdom. --Booklist

"Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of nature's complex mechanisms."--San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

"A delightful, challenging, and wonderfully informative book."--San Francisco Chronicle

"Essays ... [of] great skill and wisdom."--Booklist

"Observant, imaginative, and both lucid and impassioned."--Book Magazine

Observant, imaginative, and both lucid and impassioned. --Book Magazine"

This book of essays by Barbara Kingsolver is like a visit from a cherished old friend. --Publishers Weekly (starred review)"

Kingsolver possesses a rare depth of understanding of nature s complex mechanisms. --San Francisco Chronicle Book Review"

Book Description:

Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver is a collection of essays providing, in the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on, a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, in one of history's darker moments, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

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