Prodigal Summer
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| Rating | : | 4.79 (676 Votes) |
| Asin | : | 0571206484 |
| Format Type | : | paperback |
| Number of Pages | : | 320 Pages |
| Publish Date | : | 0000-00-00 |
| Language | : | English |
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alone in the wilderness Judith C. Toy This is my second time through Prodigal Summer. The first time I read it, I was married and busy as a writer and grandmother to five. I thought, oh if only I could live Deanna's two years alone in the forest! Now I find myself a widow in the Appalachian wilderness, living the book (although with a lesser knowledge than Kingsolver's of the natural world) and reading her sparkling prose again with a fresh perspective. As always, even in a character-driven novel, Barbara Kingsolver's characters are true and her take on the eco-system is fresh and particular, sensual, clear. "You probably need to be a rural dweller or an urban dweller with a strong hankering for the country to really enjoy it. Strong i" according to Valentia. Very enjoyable read. You probably need to be a rural dweller or an urban dweller with a strong hankering for the country to really enjoy it. Strong into the need for conservation though given with a light touch. There are three main story lines, two more substantial than the third - though the third adds some additional humour. All the characters are interconnected but only connect in indirect ways. The strong characters are all women of (nearly) different generations who all have solitary existences either chosen or not, and they cope with life in their own individual . Another Gem from Kingsolver Jonathan Hoover Kingsolver does a masterful job of weaving together the personal stories of three "couples." These six, not necessarily married, are or become deeply involved and the consequences of their relationships are unpredictible and fascinating. The author respects all her characters but the women are strong and admirable, each in different ways. There is an environmental bias incorporated regarding man's proper place in nature. This thread is not only current but scientifically informed and hopeful. Taken as a whole, the work is credible, well crafted and very impressive.
Garnett Walker and Nannie Rawley, 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. Lusa Maluf Landowski finds herself unexpectedly marooned on her husband's farm where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land. Over the course of one humid summer in the Appalachian mountains these characters discover their connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with which they share their place in the world.. From an isolated mountain cabin, Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, is caught off-guard by a young hunter who changes utterly her self-assured, solitary life
This is what she believed she would see, if she watched, at this magical juncture: a restoration. With Prodigal Summer, she returns from the Congo to a "wrinkle on the map that lies between farms and wildness." And there, in an isolated pocket of southern Appalachia, she recounts not one but three intricate stories. The "she" is Deanna Wolfe, a wildlife biologist observing the coyotes from her isolated aerie--isolated, that is, until the arrival of a young hunter who makes her even more aware