Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback | Pages: 273 pages Rating: 4.05 | 10604 Users | 585 Reviews
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| Title | : | High Tide in Tucson |
| Author | : | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | Deluxe Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 273 pages |
| Published | : | 1996 by Faber and Faber (first published September 13th 1995) |
| Categories | : | Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir |
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With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver explores her trademark themes of family, community and the natural world. Defiant, funny and courageously honest, High Tide in Tucson is an engaging and immensely readable collection from one of the most original voices in contemporary literature.'Possessed of an extravagantly gifted narrative voice, Kingsolver blends a fierce and abiding moral vision with benevolent and concise humour. Her medicine is meant for the head, the heart, and the soul.' New York Times Book Review
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| Original Title: | High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never |
| ISBN: | 0571179509 (ISBN13: 9780571179503) |
| Edition Language: | English |
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Ratings: 4.05 From 10604 Users | 585 ReviewsArticle About Books High Tide in Tucson
I try not to do this often, but in this case, the New York Times Book Review review on the back of my paperback edition, really says everything about these 25 essays by Barbara Kingsolver that you need to know:Kingsolver's essays should be savored like quiet afternoons with a friend. ...She speaks in a language rich with music and replete with good sense."Couldn't have said it better myself.An enormously honest and personal collection of essays. If you like any of Kingsolver's books, I'm sure
This book of essays was perfect for our monthly library genre circle and it was a perfect match for me. Kingsolver covered all areas in which I have a great interest in; parenting, human rights, environment, and nature. Every story spoke to me, the words flowed so smoothly and with such great detail. I truly enjoyed this book and am looking forward to trying other Kingsolver works.
I read this collection of essays years ago, and remember how thought provoking I found them. Barbara Kingsolver is, of course an excellent writer; her fiction is beautiful. The great thing about High Tide in Tuscon is actually getting a glimpse of what's inside this writer's head - the everyday things as well as the grand. It's a pretty well rounded combination of essays that come across simply as "this is what I think now" or "this is what I've been thinking about lately" - in Kingsolver's
This was a fun read - it is interesting to see a personal side of someone you have only read in novels. The book is kind of 'old' now, and the references almost quaint (like how much time the media was spending on OJ Simpson and Tonya Harding), but it's shocking how applicable these observations still are to current times. There is definitely some timeless wisdom in here. I especially liked this:"A novel works its magic by putting a reader inside another person's life. The pace is as slow as
I stole this from my mother-in-law about a year ago. Now I can finally give it back, but it's one of those that I liked so much that I'd rather just keep it. I haven't read anything by Kingsolver before so I have no idea how this compares to her other work, but it's a collection of shortish essays. Some are pretty funny, most are poignant, and all made me long for her writer's life. Time to get on that.
This book lay on three different bookshelves, in two different apartments, while I pondered whether I was ready to read it. Ready for what I thought would be a preachy collection of essays on climate change or man's effect on Earth's ecology. Well it's so much more - and most of it made me cringe. Ms. Kingsolver quotes a piece of fan mail as describing her fiction as "the most implausible, coincidence ridden, knee-jerking exhibits of liberalism and corny sentimentalism that I have ever read" in
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