Flight Behaviour
Kingsolver, Barbara
ISBN 10: 0571290779 ISBN 13: 9780571290772
Published by Faber & Faber, 2012
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First edition. First printing. 448pp. Some tanning and foxing to text block, and some very light shelf wear to dust jacket o/w a really lovely copy. OVERSEAS ORDERS MAY INCUR EXTRA SHIPPING. Seller Inventory # 117587
Synopsis:
On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?
Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.
About the Author: Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. Her most recent novel The Lacuna, won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010.
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Bibliographic Details
Title: Flight Behaviour
Publisher: Faber & Faber
Publication Date: 2012
Binding: Hardcover
Condition: Very Good
Dust Jacket Condition: Very Good
Edition: 1st Edition