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Article: Where the wild things are; Recent American fiction.(Books and Arts)(Review)
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- The Economist (US)
- Article date:
- December 16, 2000
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PRODIGAL SUMMER.
THIS is Barbara Kingsolver's fifth novel and her first since "The Poisonwood Bible" was published in 1998 to extraordinary popular and critical acclaim.
"Prodigal Summer" weaves together three stories which take place over one summer in an isolated neck of the southern Appalachian woods. When the novel opens, Deanna Wolfe, a forest ranger, is tracking coyotes in the mountains. She relishes the solitariness of her work almost as much as the proximity to nature and wildlife that it involves. But her peace of mind is shattered by the arrival of a handsome, rifle-toting drifter who introduces himself as Eddie Bondo. Against her better ...