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Title: Animal Dreams by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0-06-092114-5 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 August, 1991 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
Average Customer Rating: 3.98 (127 reviews)
Rating: 5
Summary: Brilliant writing. Insightful tale of journey to find self.
Comment: I have also read "The Bean Trees" and "Pigs in Heaven", so this writer was one that I looked forward to reading again. I was not disappointed. Her insight into the relationships of parent and child, siblings - and the way that those experiences affect our personal love relationships is extraordinary. Her descriptive idiom is fresh and invigorating. I regularly found myself near to tears, particularly when Hallie went missing, and in understanding how her father was unable to express his true love for his daughters who grew up feeling like outsiders.
The plot is not an action adventure, but a journey inwardly, which takes Codi from feeling cast adrift, to a safe mooring in a port which is her emotional home - a fact that the reader recognises way before Codi does.
A very true and well crafted novel - and I will certainly be looking for anything else written by the author. Thank you.
Rating: 5
Summary: An amazing author
Comment: Barbara Kingsolver's books are not merely to be read, but should be absorbed, digested, and pondered. Her characters in this book, as always, are sad and their glasses are half-empty instead of half-full. Happiness eludes Codi, the main character but is close at hand if she will only reach out and grasp it. She is an aimless soul who quit medical school shortly before finishing and ended up back home where she checks on her ailing father, the town physician. Her relationship with him has always been uneasy, as her mother's death deprived her of important aspects of being parented, and her father was unable to fill the gap. Her beloved sister Hallie is in Nicaragua trying to save crops and thus people, and somehow Codi feels useless by comparison. Added to this, her parents came from Illinois to this remote spot in Arizona, and the family were always outsiders. This is a beautiful story of Codi's redemption and growing maturity. I highly recommend it!
Rating: 5
Summary: Kingsolver at her best!
Comment: There are many kinds of love. Codi Noline, who can barely remember her girlhood in tiny Grace, Arizona, allows herself to feel one kind only. She and younger sister Hallie have been inseparable since their mother's death, three decades ago when Hallie was a newborn baby and Codi a three-year-old. But now agricultural specialist Hallie decides to drive herself to Nicaragua, to help the people there with their crops - just as Grace's only physician, "Doc Homer" Noline, reaches a stage of Alzheimer's at which it's obvious someone must go home and keep an eye on him.
So Codi, who finished medical school but discovered during residency that she wasn't cut out to follow in her father's footsteps, leaves her job clerking in a 7-11 and her liaison with a man about whom she has no strong feelings to hold her. She takes a one-year job teaching science at the local high school, and re-connects with her girlhood best friend (who rents Codi a small house next to her own family). Codi never felt at home in Grace before, and she feels totally alien to it now. But staying aloof, maintaining the emotional distance on which she depends for her sense of safety, doesn't work in this place where people she fails to remember insist on recognizing and acknowledging her. Memories she can barely touch pique her curiosity, and so does the slow death of Grace's great treasure, its magnificent orchards. Slowly, the woman who needs no one and doesn't want that to change finds herself connecting with those around her anyway.
Family. Community. The environment. The author's usual themes are all here, along with - to my surprise - one of the most touching yet realistic romantic love stories I've ever read. "Animal Dreams" is Kingsolver at her best!
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Title: Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 006109868X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 October, 1999 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: The Bean Trees : A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0061097314 Publisher: HarperTorch Pub. Date: 01 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $7.99 |
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Title: McDonaldization: The Reader by George Ritzer ISBN: 0761987673 Publisher: Pine Forge Press Pub. Date: 19 February, 2002 List Price(USD): $32.95 |
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Title: Prodigal Summer: A Novel by Barbara Kingsolver ISBN: 0060959037 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 16 October, 2001 List Price(USD): $14.00 |
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Title: Transitions: Making Sense of Life's Changes by William Bridges ISBN: 0201000822 Publisher: Perseus Publishing Pub. Date: December, 1980 List Price(USD): $16.50 |
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