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Homeland: And Other Stories
--" Publishers Weekly"
"A gifted storyteller."
-- "Newsday"
"Extraordinarily fine. Barbara Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters. . . . The title story is pure poetry."
-- "New York Times Book Review"
Book Details
- Publisher: Harper Perennial
- Publish Date: May 7th, 2013
- Pages: 272
- Language: English
- Edition: undefined - undefined
- Dimensions: 7.90in - 5.30in - 0.90in - 0.45lb
- EAN: 9780062277749
- Categories: • Short Stories (single author)• Literary• Cultural Heritage
About the Author
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote's Wild Home, a children's book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.
Praise for this book
"A dazzling array of short stories . . . Kingsolver's knowledge of human nature, and especially domestic relationships, is breathtaking." -- Publishers Weekly
"Read Homeland and Other Stories and you will feel glad to be alive. You are delighted by a gifted storyteller. You are strengthened and healed by the toughness and tenderness she discerns in humanity's daily rounds." -- Newsday
"Kingsolver's humanity sounds the clearest note.telling us about characters in the middle of their days, who live as we really do, from one small incident of awareness to the next." -- Los Angeles Times
"Extraordiarily fine . . . Kingsolver has a Chekhovian tenderness toward her characters . . . The title story is pure poetry." -- Russell Banks, New York Times Book Review
"Kingsolver understands in an uncanny way the significance of the ordinary, the fleeting moment that may become lost or become catharsis. She writes with refreshing clarity, humor and honesty." -- Detroit Free Press
"Kingsolver is an extraordinary storyteller." -- Chicago Tribune
"Delightful." -- New York Woman