TY - BOOK AU - Kingsolver,Barbara TI - Prodigal summer: a novel SN - 0060199652 AV - PS 3561 K55p 2000 PY - 2000/// CY - New York PB - HarperCollins Publishers KW - Farm life KW - Fiction KW - Novela estadounidense KW - Mountain life KW - Appalachian Region, Southern KW - Domestic fiction KW - lcsh N2 - In 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. ER -