Prodigal Summer - Couverture souple

Kingsolver, Barbara

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0571206484 ISBN 13 : 9780571206483

Editeur : Faber et Faber, 2001

Synopsis

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.

From her outpost in an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. She is caught off guard by a young hunter who invades her most private spaces and confounds her self-assured, solitary life. On a farm several miles down the mountain, Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself unexpectedly marooned 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 neighbours tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities of a future neither of them expected.

Over the course of one humid summer, these characters find their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they share a place. Prodigal Summer demonstrates a balance of narrative, drama and ideas that is characteristic of Barbara Kingsolver's finest work.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. Her most recent novel is The Lacuna.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Faber et Faber
• Date d'édition: 2001
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0571206484
• ISBN 13: 9780571206483
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
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