Animal Dreams - Softcover

Kingsolver, Barbara

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0780729056 ISBN 13: 9780780729056

Publisher: Perfection Learning Prebound, 1993

Synopsis

Set in the southwestern mining town of Grace, Arizona, this novel revolves around Codi, her sister Hallie and their severe and distant father, Doc Homer. The author has previously written "The Bean Trees" and "Homeland", the latter a collection of short stories.

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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: Perfection Learning Prebound
• Publication date: 1993
• ISBN 10: 0780729056
• ISBN 13: 9780780729056
• Binding: Paperback