Small Wonder
Author(s): Barbara Kingsolver
'On my desk sits a beautiful engraving, published in another century, that promises me: "Out of the chaos the future emerges in harmony and beauty." Promises and prayers contain their own kinds of answer, as consecrated aspiration. I need this one now...' In her new essay collection, written in the aftermath of September 11th, the author of High Tide In Tucson and The Poisonwood Bible brings to us out of 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
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Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver is a collection of essays providing, in the voice Kingsolver's readers have come to rely on, a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, in one of history's darker moments, and what we might yet make of ourselves.
Kingsolver's passion and poise win you over. She gets at large issues through personal and botanical details' Ruth Padel, Financial Times
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of many novels including The Poisonwood Bible, Pigs in Heaven, and Homeland, all published by Faber. She lives with her husband and daughter in southern Arizona and in the mountains of southern Appalachia.
General Fields
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- : Faber
- : Faber Paperback
- : 0.2
- : 01 July 2005
- : 200mm X 130mm
- : 01 November 2012
- : books
Special Fields
- : Barbara Kingsolver
- : Paperback
- : Paul Mirocha
- : en
- : 814.54
- : very good
- : illustrations