Pigs in heaven / a novel by Barbara Kingsolver.

Format:

Book

Author/Creator:

Kingsolver, Barbara.

Contributor:

Gotham Book Mart Collection (University of Pennsylvania)

Caroline F. Schimmel Collection of Women in the American Wilderness (University of Pennsylvania)

Schimmel, Caroline F., donor, associated name.

Language:

English

Subjects (All):

Orphans--Fiction.

Orphans.

Cherokee Indians.

Oklahoma.

Cherokee Indians--Oklahoma--Fiction.

Humorous stories.

Kentucky--Fiction.

Kentucky.

Genre:

Fiction.

Domestic fiction.

Love stories.

Romance fiction.

Penn Provenance:

Gotham Book Mart (former owner) (Gotham Book Mart Collection copy)

Schimmel, Caroline F. (donor) (Schimmel Collection copy)

Physical Description:

343 pages ; 25 cm

Edition:

First edition.

Place of Publication:

New York, NY : HarperCollins, [1993]

Summary:

When a six-year-old child named Turtle is the sole witness to a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, she and her adoptive mother Taylor have a moment of celebrity that will change their lives forever. Turtle is claimed by Annawake Fourkiller, a Cherokee activist, to have been wrongly taken from the Cherokee nation. Fear of losing Turtle sends Taylor fleeing across the country with her mother Alice, pursued by Annawake. In the course of their journey, the three find love and wisdom in surprising places.

Local Notes:

Gotham Book Mart Collection copy has dustjacket retained.

Schimmel Collection copy presented to the Penn Libraries in 2014 by Caroline F. Schimmel.

Schimmel Collection copy has the following items laid in: advertising postcard for this work; p. 9-10 of The New York Times book review (undated) with review of this work; clippings from p. C1 and C8 of The New York Times (1 September 1993) with article: Termites are interesting but books are better (by Sarah Lyall).

Schimmel Collection copy: dust jacket retained.

ISBN:

0060168013

9780060168018

OCLC:

27431722