Small Wonder: Essays [Paperback] by Kingsolver, Barbara

Kingsolver, Barbara

ISBN 10: 0060504080 / ISBN 13: 9780060504083

Published by Harper Perennial, 2003

About this Item

000-436: Trade Size Paperback with 267 pages. No Defects except for small crease top front cover from shelf or stacking. A New, Unread Book. A beautiful, square, tight copy with clean, unmarked pages. Gift Quality. Essays with Illustrations by Paul Mirocha. 10 9 8 7 6 5 4 3 2 1 First Paperback Edition 2003.

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Bibliographic Details

• Title: Small Wonder: Essays [Paperback] by Kingsolver, Barbara
• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication Date: 2003
• Language: English
• ISBN 10: 0060504080
• ISBN 13: 9780060504083
• Binding: Paperback
• Condition: As New
• Weight: 14 ounces

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Synopsis

“Soulful and soul searching. . . a passionate invitation to readers to be part of the crowd that cares about the environment, peace, and family.”—San Francisco Chronicle Book Review

In this moving essay collection, the acclaimed author of bestselling works such as Demon Copperhead and Animal, Vegetable, Miracle, raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence, and poverty in our world.

Whether Barbara Kingsolver is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, her writings are grounded in the belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.

Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

About the Author

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. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.