01683cam a2200301 a 4500001000700000003000800007005001700015007000300032008004100035010001400076020001500090020001800105035001300123040002300136041000800159043001200167050002300179100003400202245005300236260004900289300002800338520086600366650002401232650002601256650002801282651004301310655002801353105798BJBSDDR20231101132758.0ta000731s2000    nyu           000 f eng    a00061361   a0060199652  a9780060199654  a12124775  aDLCcDLCdDLCbeng  aeng  an-usa--14aPS 3561bK55p 20001 aKingsolver, Barbara, d1955- 10aProdigal summer:ba novel /cBarbara Kingsolver.  aNew York :bHarperCollins Publishers,c2000.  axi, 444 pages ;c24 cm.  aIn this beautiful novel, Barbara Kingsolver, New York Times bestselling author of Demon Copperhead and The Poisonwood Bible, weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives inhabiting the forested mountains and struggling small farms of southern Appalachia. Over the course of one humid summer, as the urge to procreate overtakes the lush countryside, this novel's intriguing protagonists—a reclusive wildlife biologist, a young farmer's wife marooned far from home, and a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors—face disparate predicaments but find connections to one another and to the flora and fauna with whom they necessarily share a place. Their discoveries are embedded inside countless intimate lessons of biology, the realities of small farming, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.  0aFarm lifevFiction. 4aNovela estadounidense 0aMountain lifevFiction. 0aAppalachian Region, SouthernvFiction. 7aDomestic fiction.2lcsh