Flight Behaviour

Kingsolver Barbara

ISBN 10: 0571290787 / ISBN 13: 9780571290789

Published by Faber & Faber, London, 2012

About this Item

433 pages. Book appears to have hardly been read and is in Fine condition throughout. Seller Inventory # 198120

Bibliographic Details

Title: Flight Behaviour

Publisher: Faber & Faber, London

Publication Date: 2012

Binding: Paperback

Condition: Fine

Dust Jacket Condition: None Issued

Edition: First Edition.

About this title

Synopsis:

Barbara Kingsolver

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