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- Brendan Behan's father quoted by Shay Duffrin in his one-man show 'Confessions of an Irish Rebel' 1984 | | | |
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Format: Audio, 9 pages
Edition: UNABRIDGED
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 006051146X
Release Date: Jan 8, 1990
Average Reader Review:     (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | From The Publisher "In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us from 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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They just don't get it.     
-- Earle Baldwin, a lover of dragonflies and bogs., May 1, 2002
Just Buy This and Read It - You Won't Be Disappointed.     
-- Tom Wood, fascinated by life of all types., June 28, 2002
Also Recommended: Daredevil's Apprentice by Letha Albright, When Elephants Weep by Jeffrey Masson, Cry of the Kalahari by Mark & Delia Owens, The Shelters of Stone by Jean. M. Auel.
| | | | The Reader's Catalog 22 well-crafted, heartfelt essays that collectively make a case for hope while examining both the very local and the very global challenges that confront us
| |  | |  | | | | Illustrated Catalog of Wonders | | | Foreword | | | Small Wonder | 1 | | Saying Grace | 22 | | Knowing Our Place | 31 | | The Patience of a Saint | 41 | | Seeing Scarlet | 50 | | Setting Free the Crabs | 60 | | A Forest's Last Stand | 75 | | Called Out | 88 | | A Fist in the Eyeof God | 93 | | Lily's Chickens | 109 | | The One-Eyed Monster, and Why I Don't Let Him In | 131 | | Letter to a Daughter at Thirteen | 144 | | Letter to My Mother | 160 | | Going to Japan | 176 | | Life Is Precious, or It's Not | 180 | | Flying | 184 | | Household Words | 195 | | What Good Is a Story? | 206 | | Marking a Passage | 215 | | Taming the Beast with Two Backs | 222 | | Stealing Apples | 228 | | And Our Flag Was Still There | 235 | | God's Wife's Measuring Spoons | 246 | | Acknowledgments | 265 |
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