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Prodigal Summer
- Narrated by: Barbara Kingsolver
- Length: 15 hrs and 46 mins
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Summary
Down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities the future holds.
Over the course of one long summer, these characters find connections to one another, and to the land, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.
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- uros
- 14-09-23
Another perfect book
<3 came here straight after listening to Demon Copperhead
Cant get enough of Babs!! Amazing writer and perfect narrator!
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- Derek C.
- 01-09-23
Wonderful
A beautiful story that's connects both emotionally and with the world around us. Wonderfully written and narrated.
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- Amazon Customer
- 21-07-23
Another winner from this author
All her books are so different but take you from here to there, wherever the book is going. Beautifully read by the author, well researched, a lovely gentle read with an ending which asks for a sequel.
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- Wendy
- 05-07-23
So informative and lovely story telling
Gently and well read, I learnt so much about the details we live amongst. It’s a long book and good company.
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- Sarah H
- 05-07-23
Loved everything about this book
I loved the narrators voice, so subtle but really engaging. Obviously being a book written by Barbara Kingsolver, the story was going to be amazing yet modest. I thoroughly enjoyed this book
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- Anonymous User
- 05-06-23
A book for life
This was a scrumptious romp through the Appalachia mountains and surrounding farms. Can’t put into words the joy I felt at the detail of nature and the obvious connections I’d somehow taken for granted. Another of Kingsolver’s books that will stay with me forever!
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- Miss H S Connolly
- 02-06-23
Blissful
Wanted to go back to the beginning and listen again. I will definitely do that again soon.
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- Denis M.
- 29-05-23
Enjoyable, sensitive, wise
Topical, funny, touching, informative. I liked the sensitive treatment of family dynamics, of bereavement and of gender, and the main theme: the place of humans in the natural world : how interconnected all life forms are - including us human animals; and what a joyful fact that is.
Though there is a strong ecological message Kingsolver depicts those who damage the web of life, such as hunters and the users of pesticides, with understanding rather than demonising them, hoping to persuade and educate rather than condemn.
My only reservation about the book is the three story structure. We jumped about too much for my taste! I’d hoped unrealistically for some sort of denouement but the three stories only came together through their overlapping themes and their shared geography. As a result I didn’t find the conclusion satisfying - really each story ended separately in spite of the discovery of hidden connections between the main characters.
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- Amazon Customer
- 23-05-23
Wonderful
I loved everything about this amazing book , her perception of life and ability to express it astonished me and will stay with me always.
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- pc
- 08-05-23
Three Stories
Loved these three stories and how they connect.
Another beautiful tale of wild nature and
Human relationships.
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