ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE : A Year of Food Life

Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp

ISBN 10: 0060852550 / ISBN 13: 9780060852559

Edité par HarperCollins, New York, NY, 2007

A propos de cet article

NEW & Collectible. Vintage 1954, First Edition, 12th Printing; first published 1942. Trace, light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block & hard cover front. Raised in Kentucky, trained as a biologist, celebrated novelist & poet Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) raised a family in Arizona. Written w/husband Steven L. Hopp, and daughter Camille Kingsolver. Memoir of a record of the family's full year w/naught but locally grown & raised foods gracing their table. 270 pgs in 20 chapters. Kingsolver says the book is a "story of good food", and humorously, might be considered the "Zorba Diet" --- the narrator in Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, who so craved cherries, he advises he be where cherries grow, and wait, with bowl in hand, when ripen, "eat cherries like they're going out of season". The first chapter is hmourously titled: "Waiting for Asparagus, in March".

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Détails bibliographiques

• Titre: ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE : A Year of Food Life
• Éditeur: HarperCollins, New York, NY
• Date de parution: 2007
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN à 10 chiffres: 0060852550
• ISBN à 13 chiffres: 9780060852559
• Reliure: Hardcover
• Illustrateur: Richard A. Houser (Illustrator)
• Édition: 1st Edition
• Impression: 12th Printing
• État de l'article: NEW - COLLECTIBLE
• État de la jaquette: Fine
• Catalogues du vendeur:
  • Nature, Ecology, Conservation
  • Cookery, Cookbook, Culinary Arts
  • Social Sciences, Cultural Studies

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Synopsis

At long last, the bestselling author of Small Miracles and The Poisonwood Bible returns with the wise and compelling true story of her family’s adventure to reclaim the food they eat

America has long been a nation of farmers. But within the past several decades, our food supply has become dependent on transportation that burns fossil fuels and on increasingly fewer varieties of vegetables and animals. In a single generation, most Americans have lost their knowledge of agriculture and the natural processes that are a part of our food chain. But while food is cheap we pay for it in other ways, including shorter life spans for our children, argues Barbara Kingsolver.

Determined to integrate their food choices with their family values, Kingsolver and her family moved from suburban Arizona to a rural Appalachia, and embarked on an adventure of realigning their lives with the food chain. Part memoir, part journalistic investigation, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle follows them through the first year of their experiment.

Told in the compelling voices of the Kingsolver family, it recalls their experiences, and introduces other passionate, committed citizens who are trying to turn the tide in their communities, from organic farmers to members of the Slow Food movement who are doing their best to protect our foods against extinction and return us to a way of life that is better for our health, our wallets, and our environment.

À propos des auteurs

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote’s Wild Home, a children’s book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver’s work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Camille Kingsolver graduated from Duke University in 2009 and currently works in the mental health field. She is an active advocate for the local-food movement, doing public speaking for young adults of her own generation navigating food choices in a difficult economy. She lives in Asheville, N.C., and grows a vegetable garden in her front yard.

Steven L. Hopp was trained in life sciences and received his PhD from Indiana University. He has published papers in bioacoustics, ornithology, animal behavior and more recently in sustainable agriculture. He is the founder and director of the Meadowview Farmers Guild, a community development project that includes a local foods restaurant and general store that source their products locally. He teaches at Emory & Henry College in the Environmental Studies department. He coauthored Animal, Vegetable, Miracle with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver.