Synopsis Codi Noline returns home to Grace, Arizona to confront both her past and her ailing father. But the town is threatened by an environmental disaster, and Codi also comes face-to-face with some family secrets. This book won the "Los Angeles Times" Book Prize for fiction.
| Details | | Publication Date: | 1991-08-01 | | Edition Description: | Reprint |
| Size | | Height: | 8.0 in | | Width: | 5.3 in | | Thickness: | 0.8 in | | Weight: | 9.6 oz |
Publisher's Note Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreamsis a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments.
In a combination of flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees offers a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. "Probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom".--New York Newsday.
Industry Reviews "Rich, complex, witty....This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time." Washington Post Book World - Ursula K. Le Guin
"You'll treasure 'Animal Dreams.' A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind." Book Jacket - Tony Hillerman
"'Animal Dreams' is a novel that feels closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time....An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers." Cosmopolitan - Louise Bernikow
"Kingsolver proves the human heart with uncommon wisdom. 'Animal Dreams' is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal." New York Newsday - Dan Cryer
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