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The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2008, Paperback, Reissue) 
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2008, Paperback, Reissue)

 
The Poisonwood Bible by Barbara Kingsolver (2008, Paperback, Reissue)

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Publication Date: 2008-06-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0061577073
ISBN-13: 9780061577079
Product ID: EPID63469964
Description: In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They...
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Synopsis
In 1959, a missionary named Nathan Price transports his wife and four daughters to a remote village in the Belgian Congo to convert the natives. The family is met with hostility from the locals, particularly a vengeful witch doctor. They also face bands of desperate rebels, dangerous wildlife, and the inevitable petty inconveniences a hyper-conventional Midwestern family might expect to face in an alien land. After tragedy strikes, the family leaves the Congo and Kingsolver details the subsequent fates of each of the female members, each narrating in her own distinctive voice. Besides being a vivid novel about family and a tour de force of characterization, THE POISONWOOD BIBLE is also a vehicle for Kingsolver's ideas about the Congo's disastrous history and America's role in it.

Details
Publication Date:2008-06-01
Edition Description:Reissue

Size
Length:543 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.5 in
Thickness:1.5 in
Weight:19.2 oz

Publisher's Note
In 1959, Nathan Price, a evangelical Baptist who has taken his wife and four daughters on a mission to the Belgian Congo, finds that their traditions are no longer secure in this very different world, in a powerful story set against the backdrop of the Congo's battle for independence from Belgium. Reissue. 50,000 first printing.

Industry Reviews
"...Barbara Kingsolver has dreamed a magnificent fiction and a ferocious bill of indictment."
Nation - John Leonard (01/11/1999)

"With the publication of THE POISONWOOD BIBLE, this easy, humorous, competent, syrupy writer has been elevated to the ranks of the greatest political novelists of our time. She is something new: a political novelist who is careful not to step on anyone's toes. Barbara Kingsolver does not finally give a hoot about Africa."
Siegel

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