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"People say that life is the thing, but I prefer reading."
- Logan Pearsall Smith
(1865 - 1946)
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ZIN Product Number: 10006912
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| | | |  | | | Product Details
 Format: Paperback, 288 pages
Publisher: HarperCollins Publishers
ISBN: 0060927569
Release Date: Jan 8, 1990
Average Reader Review:  (Based on 2 reviews.)
| |  | | | In Brief
This is a collection of twenty-five essays by the author of The Bean Trees; "some have been previously published, and all have been revised for thisbook. The title essay uses the metaphor of a hermit crab displaced from the Bahamas to Tucson to express an analogous situation in the author's life; thiscreature reappears in the final essay, 'Reprise,' representing the cyclic andrhythmic nature of life. In between, there are musings on {such topics as} life in the desert, feral pigs, libraries, fidelity, {and} childrearing." (Libr J)
| | | | From The Publisher
Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
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The best Kingsolver has to offer
-- Nicole S. Lorinn, an English major, April 26, 2001
Also Recommended: Animal Dreams Girl With the Pearl Earring A Yellow Raft in Blue Water
More magic than fiction......
-- Pat Chapin, October 15, 2001
Also Recommended: The Bean Trees (Kingsolver, fiction)
| | | | The Reader's Catalog
A scientist's eye and a poet's voice characterize the author in this collection of 26 new essays about family, community, and the natural world. "Possessed of an extravagantly gifted narrative voice, Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with benevolent and concise humor. Her medicine is meant for the head, the heart, and the soul"--NY Times Book Review
| |  | |  | | | | Preface | | | High Tide in Tucson | 1 | | Creation Stories | 17 | | Making Peace | 23 | | In Case You Ever Want to Go Home Again | 35 | | How Mr. Dewey Decimal Saved My Life | 46 | | Life Without Go-Go Boots | 54 | | The Household Zen | 59 | | Semper Fi | 66 | | The Muscle Mystique | 80 | | Civil Disobedience at Breakfast | 85 | | Somebody's Baby | 99 | | Paradise Lost | 108 | | Confessions of a Reluctant Rock Goddess | 121 | | Stone Soup | 135 | | The Spaces Between | 146 | | Postcards from the Imaginary Mom | 158 | | The Memory Place | 170 | | The Vibrations of Djoogbe | 181 | | Infernal Paradise | 194 | | In the Belly of the Beast | 207 | | Jabberwocky | 222 | | The Forest in the Seeds | 236 | | Careful What You Let in the Door | 243 | | The Not-So-Deadly Sin | 257 | | Reprise | 263 | | Acknowledgments | 271 |
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