High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
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AlbakiReads Editorial Essays on family, belonging, and the human place in nature
Essays on family, belonging, and the human place in nature
Barbara Kingsolver’s collection ranges across domestic life, social history, and the natural world, using individual encounters and cultural artifacts as starting points for larger questions. Modern motherhood, private property, human kinship with animals, and community recur alongside scenes involving a garden-invading pig, paper dolls, a toddler’s resistance, atomic-bomb relics, and oysters far from the coast. The essays connect everyday observation with ethical and philosophical inquiry, considering how people make meaning and locate responsibility within the wider living world.
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- Readers interested in literary essays linking personal experience with social questions
- Fans of nature writing and reflections on human relationships with animals
- Readers seeking essay collections about family, community, and everyday ethics
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Book Overview "Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milwaukee Sentinel"Ki...
"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milwaukee Sentinel
"Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend." --New York Times Book Review
In this brilliant essay collection, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Barbara Kingsolver turns to her favored literary terrain to explore themes of family, community, and the natural world.
With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction. In High Tide in Tucson, Kingsolver is defiant, funny, and courageously honest.
Book Details Format: Paperback | Pages: 304 | Language: English | Publisher: HARPERCOLLINS | ISBN: 0060927569
FormatPaperback
Pages304
LanguageEnglish
ISBN0060927569
EAN9780060927561
PublisherHARPERCOLLINS
Publication Date1996-08-30
EditionIllustrated
AccessoriesNo Accessory
ConditionNew
Product TypeQUALITY PAPERBACK BOOKS
Weight0.6 Pounds
Length8.2 Inches
Width5.4 Inches
Height0.9 Inches
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