La Taylor, la jove protagonista, viu al Kentucky rural, amb una única cabòria: no quedar-se embarassada. Un dia decideix fugir per trobar-se a si mateixa. Però quan arriba a Arizona, troba una cosa b
In this intimate collection, the beloved author of The Poisonwood Bible and more than a dozen other New York Times bestsellers, winner or finalist for the Pulitzer and countless other prizes, now trains her eye on the everyday and the metaphysical in poems that are smartly crafted, emotionally rich, and luminous.
AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOW From the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories She comes closer than anyone else I know ANNE PATCHETT Clear and emotional This is a report from the trenches of where the political meets the personal JOHN SAYLES It was the summer of 1983 Barbara Kingsolver had a day job as a scientific writer spends her weekends cutting her teeth as a freelance journalist when she landed an assignment Her mission was to cover the Phelps Dodge mine strike Over the year that followed Kingsolver stood with those miners and their families increasingly engaged and heartbroken She recorded stories of striking miners and their stunningly courageous wives sisters and daughters She saw rights she d taken for granted denied to people she had learned to care about as they cried out to a wide world that either refused to believe what was happening to them or didn t care or simply could not know This book is the true story of the families who held the line and of Kingsolver s commitment to tell the story of the women and girls who discovered the
AVAILABLE TO PRE ORDER NOWFrom the multi million copy bestselling author Demon Copperhead a true story of female led resilience during the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983 now available for the first time in the UK Kingsolver means to save us by telling us stories
Orleanna Price no es consciente de lo que les espera a ella y a sus cuatro hijas en la misión del Congo Belga a la que las arrastra su marido, un pastor baptista, en 1959. La joven Rachel, las gemelas adolescentes Leah y Adah, y la pequeña Ruth May describen y construyen su vida en Africa mientras se sobreponen a las sorpresas que les depara este continente y la obsesiva mision evangelizadora de su padre. A partir de las voces de cada una de las cinco mujeres de la familia, Kingsolver muestra la lucha de estas mujeres por sobrevivir a la dura vida que les ha impuesto el padre de la familia y por encontrar un camino que les conduzca a su propia salvacion.
Meet Willa Knox, a woman who stands braced against a world which seems to hold little mercy for her and her family - or their old, crumbling house, falling down around them. Willa's two grown-up children, a new-born grandchild, and her ailing father-in-law have all moved in at a time when life seems at its most precarious. But when Willa discovers that a pioneering female scientist lived on the same street in the 1800s, could this historical connection be enough to save their home from ruin? And can Willa, despite the odds, keep her family together?
**NOW INCLUDING THE FIRST CHAPTER OF DEMON COPPERHEAD**FROM THE WINNER OF THE PULITZER PRIZE FOR FICTIONTWICE WINNER OF THE WOMENS PRIZE FOR FICTIONTHE MULTI-MILLION COPY BESTSELLING AUTHOR The poems of How to Fly (in Ten Thousand Easy Lessons) find breath and lightness in the common business of living. Barbara Kingsolvers generous collection is divided into thematic sections that loop and interweave to form a carefully patterned whole: a series of How to poems that smartly balance tongue-in-cheek pragmatism with revelatory wisdom, a complicated yet affirmative family pilgrimage to Italy, cherished childhood memories, the perils and pleasures of being a [female] writer, elegies to lost loved ones, and elegies to the planet.Blending resourcefulness and wonder with all the compassionate humanity of her prose, How to Fly will both delight Kingsolvers devoted readership and welcome a host of new readers to her startling verse, while revealing an intimate side to her creative practice as yet unseen.
Un recorrido por la historia del Congo, a través del relato de las mujeres de una familia norteamericana cuyo progenitor, un pastor baptista, se impone una imposible misión catequizadora. Un libro que, según Los Angeles Times, convierte los espinosos hilos de la religión, la política, la raza y la redención en una terrible belleza.
This essay collection brings to us out of one of history''s darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. The essays are grounded in the author''s belief that our largest problems and their solutions have grown from the Earth''s remotest corners as well as our own backyards.
