

Prodigal Summer
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/08/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Small Town & Rural, Political
Author: Barbara Kingsolver
Narrator: Barbara Kingsolver
Unabridged: 15 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 11/08/2005
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Small Town & Rural, Political
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.
Ok. What gives, Kingsolver? I have adored her work for years, and had this particular book sitting on my shelf for a long time unread. I picked it up to read recently, and went "oh yeah, that's why". i'd tried previous times to read it and couldn't "get into it". I'm usually a stickler for the "getti......more
It's always harder to review books I enjoyed because I never know what to say about them. It's so much easier when I have a lot I want to complain about. I loved this book honestly and it really resonated with me. Much of the environmentalism in the book was in line with a lot of my own beliefs. I r......more
I knew I had read a Barbara Kingsolver novel, but I couldn't remember which one. Just now, when I read the book summary, I thought, "This is the one!" I enjoyed this book, but I was a little bit sad when it ended because I knew I would miss the main characters.......more