

Flight Behavior
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Unabridged: 16 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/06/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political, Suspense & Thriller
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Unabridged: 16 hr 56 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/06/2012
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Political, Suspense & Thriller
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 and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
In 2004 Barbara Kingsolver moved from Tucson, where she had lived since 1978, to southern Appalachia. This marked a return to her roots, migrating back to an ancestral place, like the butterflies in her latest novel, Flight Behavior might once have done. She must feel right at home there as she has......more
Barbara Kingsolver is one of those rare writers with whom you know what you are getting before you open the first page. You know, for example, that the prose is going to be literary, dense, and luscious (take this descriptive line: Summer’s heat had never really arrived, nor the cold in turn, and eve......more
Yes, Ms. Kingsolver knows her way around a pretty turn of phrase. In this book, however, she uses her pretty language to dress up an unlikeable bitch and then she harangues us - on and on - about global warming, the sins of buying shoddy goods made overseas, the shameful state of rural education, h......more