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Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (2003, Paperback, Reprint) 
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (2003, Paperback, Reprint)

 
Small Wonder by Barbara Kingsolver (2003, Paperback, Reprint)

Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Publisher: Harpercollins
Publication Date: 2003-04-01
Language: English
Format: Paperback
ISBN-10: 0060504080
ISBN-13: 9780060504083
Product ID: EPID2294640
Description: In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces on frogs, crabs, and the Grand Canyon, she conveys an a...
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Synopsis
In this collection of essays, popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver writes equally well about nature and human nature. Kingsolver studied biology in graduate school, and in her pieces on frogs, crabs, and the Grand Canyon, she conveys an appreciation of the natural world and its connection to ours. A letter to her mother about writing, and one to her daughter about good parenting versus the right to privacy, convey honest family values, as does a piece on Columbine, both the flower and the massacre ("Life Is Precious Or It's Not"). The essays that stand out, and that give this collection its resonance, are several that address issues of 9/11. A friend in New York asked Kingsolver, "How do I live with anger?" Without revenge, she answers, and without flag-waving. Kingsolver's personable, accessible essays somehow reinforce what we already know: that life matters because of its small wonders.

Details
Publication Date:2003-04-01
Illustrator:Paul Mirocha
Edition Description:Reprint

Size
Length:288 pages
Height:8.0 in
Width:5.3 in
Thickness:0.8 in
Weight:12.0 oz

Publisher's Note

In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have.

Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.

Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.



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