All Over Creation
Ruth L. Ozeki
Sold by Pete's Loved Books, Luddenham, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since 18 September 2024
Used - Soft cover
Condition: Used - Fair
Ships from Australia to U.S.A.
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSold by Pete's Loved Books, Luddenham, NSW, Australia
AbeBooks Seller since 18 September 2024
Condition: Used - Fair
Quantity: 1 available
Add to basketSydney: Text Publishing, 2013 WILL COMBINE BOOKS TO SAVE POSTAGE WHERE POSSIBLE. SOFT COVER MID SIZE - SMALL TEAR ON SPINE AND STICKER RESIDUE ON FRONT COVER,.PAPERBACK EDITION WITH SOME CREASES TO SPINE AND COVERUsedSMALL TEAR ON SPINE,PAPERBACK EDITION WITH SOME CREASES TO SPINE AND COVER SMALL TEAR ON SPINE,Yumi Fuller hasn't set foot in Liberty Falls, Idaho, heart of the potato-farming industry, since she ran away at age fifteen Twenty-five years later, the prodigal daughter returns to confront her dying parents, her best friend and her conflicted past, and finds herself caught up in an altogether new drama The post-millennial farming community has been invaded by Agribusiness forces at war with a posse of activists, the Seeds of Resistance, who travel the country in a camping car called The Spudnick, biofuelled by pilfered McDonald's french-fry oil Ruth Ozeki delivers a quirky cast of characters and a wickedly humorous appreciation of the foibles of corporate life, globalization, political resistance, youth culture, and aging baby boomers All Over Creation tells a celebratory tale of the beauty of seeds, roots, and growth - and the capacity for renewal that resides within us all Ruth Ozeki was born and raised in Connecticut by an American father and a Japanese mother She has lived in Japan, where among other things she worked as a bar hostess and studied flower arrangement, Noh drama and mask carving Ruth practises Zen Buddhism and was ordained as a priest in 2010 She is the bestselling author of My Year of Meats and A Tale for the Time Being textpublishingcomau 'A book where dread and hope coexist Neither is given short shrift or magicked away' New York Times Book Review 'Ozeki joins the constellation of such environmentally aware writers as Barbara Kingsolver, Annie Proulx and Margaret Atwood, bringing her own shrewd and playful humor; luscious sexiness and kinetic pizzazz to the table, as well her keen interest in the interface between food, family, science and corporate greed, and the dynamics of spin' Chicago Tribune 'All Over Creation buzzes and blooms with the cross-pollination of races and subcultures, death and birth, betrayal and reconciliation, comedy and tragedy' Los Angeles Times Book Review 'All Over Creation opens wider with every plot twist as it moves from tenderness to comedy to sobering truth and the world in the eye of one family's storm' Barbara Kingsolver.
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