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BARBARA KINGSOLVER’S
ten published books include novels, collections of short stories, poetry, essays, and an oral history. Her work has been translated into more than a dozen languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000, she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country’s highest honor for service through the arts.
Ms. Kingsolver grew up in Kentucky and earned a graduate degree in biology before becoming a full-time writer. With her husband, Steven Hopp, she co-writes articles on natural history, plays jazz, gardens, and raises two daughters. Their family divides its time between Tucson, Arizona, and a farm in southern Appalachia.
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acclaim
for
Animal Dreams
by Barbara Kingsolver
“Kingsolver is giving a new voice to our literature.
Animal Dreams
solidly establishes Kingsolver as someone who will give her public more than one great book.”
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Los Angeles Times Book Review
“An emotional masterpiece….A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul.”
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New York Daily News
“A well-nigh perfect novel, masterfully written, brimming with insight, humor, and compassion. Kingsolver’s clear, purposeful prose spins the narrative like a spider’s web, its interconnected strands gossamer-thin but tensile, strong. This richly satisfying novel should firmly establish Kingsolver among the pantheon of talented writers.”
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Publishers Weekly
“One of the year’s best works of fiction.”
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Detroit News and Free Press
“A glorious tapestry….
Animal Dreams
is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams.”
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Denver Post
“A fascinating world of myth, memory, and dreams. Following Codi Noline home is definitely a worthwhile journey.”
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Dallas Morning News
“Barbara Kingsolver gives us the gift of a trip to forgiveness and love through lovingly sensual detail, characters we all know and yet wish we knew better, through evocations of an Arizona landscape both nurturing and mysterious.”
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Minneapolis Star Tribune
“Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it.”
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San Francisco Chronicle
“You’ll treasure
Animal Dreams
. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind.”
—T
ONY
H
ILLERMAN
,
author of
Talking God
and
Thief of Time
“Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters’ state of mind.”
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New York Times Book Review
“A novel full of aching sadness—as well as joy, humor, insight, and wonderful writing.”
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Arizona Daily Star
“
Animal Dreams
literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect….
Animal Dreams
leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope.”
—
Houston Post
Fiction
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
Essays
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson
Poetry
Another America
Nonfiction
Holding the Line:
Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
ANIMAL DREAMS
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