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Cargando... Prodigal Summer: A Novel (edición 2001)por Barbara Kingsolver (Autor)
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Inscríbete en LibraryThing para averiguar si este libro te gustará. Actualmente no hay Conversaciones sobre este libro. 3.5 stars. Too much descriptive sex for my personal taste, but I wanted the book to continue; it seemed to end just as the three story lines were joining up in an interesting way. I liked the environmental slant and info. ( ) A great book about evolution. It follows the summer of three people-a 46 yr old female living alone as a National Forest employee who gets caught up with a 29 yr old; a 26 yr old woman whose spouse dies after a year of marriage and she must now run the family farm and a 80 yr old man trying to come up with a new variety of chestnut tree. It is about the effects of man to man and species to species in the world of survival. Listening to this was like a visit home. The interwoven stories are quite enjoyable in their own right. But it is Kingsolver's unerring touch with the language -- the rhythms and the idioms of the southern Blue Ridge -- that lift this book above a mere character study. The ecological lessons woven into the stories and dialog are icing on the cake. [Audiobook note: Kingsolver herself narrates the book. This, too, is a gift because an outsider can never quite get the southern Appalachian accent right.]
Readers hoping for the emotional intensity and wide-angle vision of ''The Poisonwood Bible,'' Kingsolver's magnificent 1998 epic about a self-destructing missionary family in the newly independent Congo, will most likely be disappointed. But the legions of fans primed on earlier books like ''Animal Dreams'' and ''The Bean Trees'' will find themselves back on familiar, well-cleared ground of plucky heroines, liberal politics and vivid descriptions of the natural world. In an improbably appealing book with the feeling of a nice stay inside a terrarium, Ms. Kingsolver means to illustrate the nature of biological destiny and provide enlightened discourse on various ecological matters. Pertenece a las series editorialesContenido enHomeland and Other Stories | Animal Dreams | The Bean Trees | Pigs in Heaven | The Poisonwood Bible | Prodigal Summer por Barbara Kingsolver Tiene como guía de estudio aDistincionesListas de sobresalientes
El escenario en que suceden las cosas aquí, es maravilloso; se trata de las imponentes montañas boscosas del sur de los Apalaches. Allí conviven personas de variados puntos de vista y con posiciones muy encontradas sobre la realidad. El entorno resulta propicio para la meditación y el análisis. La Naturaleza se encargará en estos parajes de recordarnos la verdad sobre la existencia, y de hacernos sentir insignificantes e indefensos. Son varios los protagonistas: Deanna es bióloga y le gusta recluirse en su aislada cabaña para contemplar el bosque; un joven cazador invade su privacidad. Por su parte Lusa trata de arreglárselas con su poca experiencia de granjera, porque está recién llegada de la ciudad. No muy lejos, una pareja de ancianos discutirá sobre Dios, los pesticidas y las complejidades de un mundo que no es como se imaginaban. Esta novela es un himno a la Naturaleza en su estado salvaje. No se han encontrado descripciones de biblioteca. |
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