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Prodigal summer : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Wildlife biologist Deanna is caught off guard by an intrusive young hunter, while bookish city wife Lusa finds herself facing a difficult identity choice, and elderly neighbors find attraction at the height of a long-standing feud.
Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off-guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected. Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place.
Record details
- ISBN: 9780060199654
- ISBN: 0060199652
- ISBN: 0060959037 (pbk.)
- Physical Description: xi, 444 p. ; 24 cm.
- Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins Publishers, c2000.
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- Subject:
- Farm life > Fiction.
Mountain life > Fiction.
Love > Fiction
Biologist > Fiction
Woman Biologist > Fiction
Hunter > Fiction
Farmers > Fiction
Elderly people > Fiction
Appalachian Region, Southern > Fiction. - Genre:
- Domestic fiction.
Domestic fiction.
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- 19 of 19 copies available at BC Interlibrary Connect.
- 1 of 1 copy available at Valemount Public Library. (Show)
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- 1 current hold with 19 total copies.
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| Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Holdable? | Status | Due Date |
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| Valemount Public Library | f kin (Text) | 35194001360452 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Castlegar Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 35146001293869 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Creston Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | CPL047939 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Elkford Public Library | FC KIN (Text) | 35170000231423 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fernie Heritage Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 35136000375684 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. James Public Library | KIN (Text) | 35196000079777 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Fort St. John Public Library | AF KIN (Text) | BFSJ089960 | ADULT Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Grand Forks | FIC KIN (Text) | 35142002575198 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Houston Public Library | F KIN (Text) | 35150001407545 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Interlakes Branch | KIN (Text)
Legacy Use Count: 1 |
33923003744103 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |