High Tide in Tucson
Essays from Now or Never
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Barbara Kingsolver
About this listen
Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of listeners with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven.
In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the 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. Her 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.
Critic Reviews
"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature." (Washington Post Book World)
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- Anonymous User
- 27-03-2024
The beauty of her language
I did not enjoy the piece about the nuclear missiles but it contrasted powerfully with Baraba’s joyful writing about nature and her new marriage.
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- Jennifer
- 04-04-2016
A prod for humanity
This gentle yet thought provoking personal exposition gives Barbara Kingsolver's perspective on the micro and macro of life. If more followed her suggested life mantras the world would be a much better place.
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