Flight Behaviour (Paperback)

Barbara Kingsolver

ISBN 10: 0571290809 / ISBN 13: 9780571290802

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2013

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Paperback. On the Appalachian Mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged?Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them. From the international bestselling author and twice winner of the Women's Prize for Fiction: a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. Shipping may be from multiple locations in the US or from the UK, depending on stock availability.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Flight Behaviour (Paperback)
• Publisher: Faber & Faber, London
• Publication Date: 2013
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0571290809
• ISBN 13: 9780571290802
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: new

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Synopsis

On the appalachian mountains above her home, a young mother discovers a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? flight behavior is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is barbara kingsolver's most accessible novel yet and explores the truths we live by and the complexities that lie behind them.

Review

Amazon Best Books of the Month, November 2012: In what may be the first novel to realistically imagine the near-term impact of “global weirding,” Barbara Kingsolver sets her latest story in rural Appalachia . In fictional Feathertown, Tennessee, Dellarobia Turnbow--on the run from her stifling life--charges up the mountain above her husband’s family farm and stumbles onto a “valley of fire” filled with millions of monarch butterflies. This vision is deemed miraculous by the town’s parishioners, then the international media. But when Ovid, a scientist who studies monarch behavior, sets up a lab on the Turnbow farm, he learns that the butterflies’ presence signals systemic disorder--and Dellarobia's in-laws’ logging plans won’t help. Readers who bristle at politics made personal may be turned off by the strength of Kingsolver’s convictions, but she never reduces her characters to mouthpieces, giving equal weight to climate science and human need, to forces both biological and biblical. Her concept of family encompasses all living beings, however ephemeral, and Flight Behavior gracefully, urgently contributes to the dialogue of survival on this swiftly tilting planet. --Mari Malcolm