Prodigal Summer
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وصف الناشر
National Bestseller
“A blend of breathtaking artistry, encyclopedic knowledge of the natural world. . . and ardent commitment to the supremacy of nature.” — San Francisco Chronicle
In this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, acclaimed author of The Poisonwood Bible and the Pulitzer-Prize winning Demon Copperhead, and recipient of the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguish Contribution to American Letters, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia.
Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists—a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors—face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.
Prodigal Summer is a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself.
مراجعات العملاء
Audio volume
The book was great. The audio level was very low though. I had to turn the volume up to 100% and still it wasn’t loud enough at times.
Love
Pure poetry.
Prodigal Summer
It was a particular treat for Kingsolver herself to read this out loud. She alone can understand exactly how characters in her novels should sound—their moods, accents, inflections. Listening to this book was like listening to a poem except so much better. She’s so good at developing character, creating stories, then intertwining them. I love her work, but this is one of the best books I’ve ever read/heard. I did not want it to end, although the closure on each character was mostly satisfactory. Highly recommend.