Book
Prodigal summer : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
Summary:
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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- 18 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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| Kaslo and District Public Library | AF KIN (Text) | 35134000426995 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| McBride | Fic Kin (Text) | 35191000019378 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Prince Rupert Library | KING (Text) | 33294001159888 | Adult Fiction - Second Floor | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Quesnel Branch | KIN (Text)
Legacy Use Count: 11 |
33923003590936 | Overflow Collection | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Radium Hot Springs Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | 35130000093637 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Salmo Public Library | FIC KIN (Text) | SPL17842 | Adult Fiction (hardback or trade paperback) | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Sechelt Public Library | F KING (Text) | 33260000413287 | Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Trail and District Public Library Main Branch | F KIN (Text) | 35110001146188 | Adult Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |
| Williams Lake Branch | KIN (Text)
Legacy Use Count: 5 |
33923004442848 | General Fiction | Volume hold | Available | - |