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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never

High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never - Paperback

by Barbara Kingsolver
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Availability:In StockContributor:Barbara KingsolverPublish date:2003-11-25Pages:304
Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060927561ISBN-10:60927569UPC:9780060927561Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, American, Women AuthorsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCMTWM4XRT

"Clever. . . magical. . . beautifully crafted. Kingsolver spins you around the philosophic world a dozen times." -- Milwaukee Sentinel

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. Kingsolver's critically acclaimed writings always entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returns to her familiar themes of family, community, the common good, and the natural world.

The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth--one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom.

Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

Language:EnglishPublisher:Harper PerennialISBN-13:9780060927561ISBN-10:60927569UPC:9780060927561Book Category:Literary CollectionsBook Subcategory:Essays, American, Women AuthorsSize:8.20 x 5.40 x 0.90 inchesWeight:0.5997Product ID:SCMTWM4XRT
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Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, Flight Behavior, The Lacuna, The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. She was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts, as well as the Dayton Literary Peace Prize for the body of her work. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.

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