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Other Versions of this Book: Hardcover, Audio Cassette (Unabridged)
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In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us, out of one of history's darker moments, an extended love song to the world we still have.
Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, genetic engineering, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the author's belief that our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.
Sometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasive, Small Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.
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- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Poetry >> 20th Century
- Literature & Fiction >> Essays >> General
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- Literature & Fiction >> Poetry >> Single Authors >> United States
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( K ) >> Kingsolver, Barbara >> General
- Literature & Fiction >> Authors, A-Z >> ( K ) >> Kingsolver, Barbara >> Paperback
- Literature & Fiction >> World Literature >> United States >> Poetry >> General
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2 member(s) found this review helpful.
I would so love to meet Ms. Kingsolver. She is one of my heroes (heroines sounds too drug-related). If President Bush read this, he would think she was committed to a mental institution. The truth hurts, but at least she shares it with us.
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Some of these essays can be read over and over. Very good stuff.
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This book of essays is a wonderful environmental book of insights. It's no "Poisonwood
Bible"( Kingsolver's best work I believe), but it's an easy, and yet an insightful work to
the wonders around us. I enjoyed the book due o its variety of essays from serious to funny and I love anything by Kingsolver.
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Good book. Very informative on ecological and environmental issues.
Gwen G. wrote on 8/28/2006...excellent collection of essays about the natural world, family.
Kingsolver has done a magnificent job with this book of essays. She takes a good look at many aspects of life and offers some interesting ideas and things to think about.
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