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Category - Fiction / General Fiction
Format - Paperback
Condition - Excellent
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Est. Publication Date - Mar 1994
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FICTION "Possessed of an extravagantly gifted narrative voice, Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with benevolent, concise humor. Her medicine is meant for the head, the heart, and the soul." -New York Times Book Review When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past. A deeply felt novel of love despite the risks, of tearing apart and coming together, Pigs in Heaven travels the roads from rural Kentucky and the urban Southwest to Heaven, Oklahoma, and the Cherokee Nation. As this spellbinding novel unfolds, it draws the reader into a world of heartbreak and redeeming love, testing the boundaries of family and the many separate truths about the ties that bind. With Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver has given us her wisest, most compelling work to date. "There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature. Her dialogue sparkles with sassy wit and the earthy poetry of ordinary folks' talk; her descriptions have a magical lyricism rooted in daily life but also on familiar terms with the eternal." —Washington Post Book World "Kingsolver makes you care about her characters to the point of tears; she is bitingly funny—and she writes like a dream." —San Francisco Chronicle BARBARA KINGSOLVER is a writer of fiction, nonfic-tion, and poetry. Her previous bestselling works of fiction are The Bean Trees, Homeland, and Animal Dreams. She lives in Tucson, Arizona. ISBN 0-06-092253-2 90000 HarperPerennial A Division of Harper CollinsPublishers Cover design by Suzanne Noli Cover illustration © 1993 by Lisa Desimini Author photograph © 1993 by Seth Kantner USA $13.00 CANADA $17.50 9 780060 922535 0494P
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Pigs in Heaven
ISBN: 0060922532
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