Small Wonder: Essays: Kingsolver, Barbara: 9780060504083.
Used - Fine. n twenty-two wonderfully articulate essays, Barbara Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world From the author of High Tide in Tucson, comes Small Wonder, a new collection of essays that begins with a parable gleaned from recent news: villagers search for.
Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland. Soon after her birth, her family moved to rural Kentucky, the culture and landscape that informs much of her writing. As a child Kingsolver wrote stories and essays, but it never occurred to her that she could write for a living.
In this collection of essays, the author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us (out of one of history's darker moments) an extended love song to the world. The lacuna By Kingsolver, Barbara.
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Small Wonder Essays.. As Americans and New Yorkers, the one writer we wanted to read after the terrorist attacks on September 11 was Barbara Kingsolver. The bestselling author of The Poisonwood Bible,. While pondering the small pleasures of her homes in Tucson and Virginia, Kingsolver refuses to ignore the plight of the homeless.
The cover of a new collection of essays by Barbara Kingsolver, for whom nature is always the inspiration for her work. And such work it is, read the world over.