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Small wonder / Barbara Kingsolver ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.
Van Pelt Library PS3561.I496 S63 2002
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Kingsolver, Barbara.
- Language:
- English
- Physical Description:
- xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
- Edition:
- First edition.
- Place of Publication:
- New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [2002]
- Summary:
- In 22 wonderfully articulate essays, Kingsolver raises her voice in praise of nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the genesis of war, violence and poverty in the world. Illustrations.
- Contents:
- Small wonder
- Saying grace
- Knowing our place
- The patience of a saint
- Seeing scarlet
- Setting free the crabs
- A forest's last stand
- Called out
- A fist in the eye of God
- Lily's chickens
- The one-eyed monster, and why I don't let him in
- Letter to a daughter at thirteen
- Letter to my mother
- Going to Japan
- Life is precious, or it's not
- Flying
- Household words
- What good is a story?
- Marking a passage
- Taming the beast with two backs
- Stealing apples
- And our flag was still there
- God's wife's measuring spoons.
- ISBN:
- 0060504072
- OCLC:
- 48944526
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