Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

ISBN 10: 0060852550 / ISBN 13: 9780060852559

Published by HarperCollins Publishers, 2007

About this Item

SIGNED. New. NF/NF. Seventh printing. SIGNED on the title page. The unread book is tight with solid hinges, good tips, and clean boards. Spine ends gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. B&W drawings at chapter headings. The dust jacket is unclipped ($26.95) with very faint shelf wear. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. 269 pages. 6¼ x 9¼ " Barbara Kingsolver?s nonfiction account of a year when she and her family attempted to eat only locally grown food. The book falls into several categories: a memoir, a polemic, a sermon, and a call to locavorism. Eye-opening in multiple ways to an old truth: you are what you eat.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life
• Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
• Publication Date: 2007
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060852550
• ISBN 13: 9780060852559
• Binding: Hardcover
• Condition: Near Fine
• Dust Jacket Condition: Near Fine
• Signed: Signed by Author(s)
• Seller catalogs:
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Synopsis

The National Humanities Medal-winning author of The Poisonwood Bible follows the author's family's efforts to live on locally and home-grown foods, an endeavor through which they learned lighthearted truths about food production and the connection between health and diet. 175,000 first printing.

Review

"Homespun, unassuming, informed, positive, inspiring. . . . Unstinting in its concerns about this imperiled planet."--Seattle Post-Intelligencer

"A lovely book. "--Los Angeles Times

"Kingsolver...adds enough texture and zest to stir wistful yearnings in all of us...[A] vicarious taste of domesticity."--Christian Science Monitor

"I defy anyone to read this book and walk away from it without gaining at least the desire to change."--Bookreporter.com

"Provocative . . . Kingsolver . . . evokes the sheer joy of producing one's own food."--People

"Lessons learned in sustainability are worth feasting on-and taking to heart."--Self

"ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change.""--Chicago Tribune

"Kingsolver elegantly chronicles a year of back-to-the-land living...Readers...will take heart and inspiration here."--Kirkus Reviews

"Full...of zest and sometimes ribald humor... Reading this book will make you hungry."--Raleigh News & Observer

"A terrific effort. The delight for readers...is the chance to experience the rediscovery of community through food."--The Oregonian (Portland)