Throughout her work, Kingsolver takes on and weaves together beautiful stories around significant processes that shape rural space, as well as society more generally. For example, in her most recent book, Flight Behaviour (2012), Kingsolver challenges readers to dwell upon the cross-border politics...
Kingsolver is most generous to her women and children, giving men more shallow characterizations. The men are annoying or ineffectual, problems for the women to solve. But all the children, male and female, are understandable and are magnets for the warmth of the women. I had the happy feeli...
Also ranks #48 on The Most Beautiful Women From The '60s And '70s Also ranks #169 on The Best TV Actors And Actresses Of All Time 24 Barbara Kingsolver 04/07/1955 5 Barbara Kingsolver (born April 8, 1955) is an American novelist, essayist and poet. She was raised in rural Kentucky...
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of eight works of fiction, including the novelsThe Lacuna,The Poisonwood Bible,Animal Dreams, andThe Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her most recent work of nonfiction is the enormously influential bestsellerAnimal, Vegetable...
Kingsolver’s critique of violence is extended to the level of national policy by the fate of Codi’s sister Hallie. Like the young American engineer Ben Linder, to whom the book is dedicated, Hallie is killed by Contra guerrillas, the group Ronald Reagan called “the moral equivalent of our...
As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle, Dellarobia confronts her family, her church, her town, and a larger world, in a flight toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.About The BookPoetry
Throughout her work, Kingsolver takes on and weaves together beautiful stories around significant processes that shape rural space, as well as society more generally. For example, in her most recent book, Flight Behaviour (2012), Kingsolver challenges readers to dwell upon the cross-border politics...