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Prodigal summer / Barbara Kingsolver.

Kingsolver, Barbara, (author,, narrator.). Harper Audio (Firm), (publisher.).

Summary:

"Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life. Down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself 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 the future holds. Over the course of one long summer, these characters find connections to one another, and to the land, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth"--EBSCO website.

Record details

  • ISBN: 9780060894634
  • ISBN: 0060894636
  • Physical Description: 1 online resource (1 audio file, 15 hr., 46 min.)
  • Edition: Unabridged.
  • Publisher: [New York] : Harper Audio, [2013]

Content descriptions

General Note:
Release date supplied by distributor.
Participant or Performer Note:
Read by the author.
Source of Description Note:
Print version record.
Subject:
Mountain life > Fiction.
Farm life > Fiction.
Appalachian Region, Southern > Fiction.
FICTION > General.
Farm life.
Mountain life.
Southern Appalachian Region.
Genre:
Downloadable audio books.
Audiobooks.
Domestic fiction.
Fiction.
Novels.
Domestic fiction.
Audiobooks.
Novels.

Other Formats and Editions

English (2)

Electronic resources


  • Baker & Taylor
    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. Simultaneous.
  • Findaway World Llc

    National Bestseller

    “A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle

    In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Demon Copperhead, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.

    Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists—a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors—face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.

    Prodigal Summer is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.

  • HARPERCOLL

    Triumphing once again, Barbara Kingsolver has written a beautiful new novel: a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself

    Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life. Down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself 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 the future holds.

    Over the course of one long summer, these characters find connections to one another, and to the land, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.

    Read by the author.