{"product_id":"9798765113813","title":"Barbara Kingsolver's World: Nature, Art, and the Twenty-First Century, Revised Edition","description":"Author: Wagner-Martin, Linda\u003cbr\u003eISBN: 9798765113813\u003cbr\u003ePublisher: Bloomsbury\u003cbr\u003eYear first published: 11 Jul 2024\u003cbr\u003ePages: 256 Format: Paperback \/ softback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eA revised edition of Linda Wagner-Martin's comprehensive study of the novels, stories, essays and poetry of American author Barbara Kingsolver. Now updated so that coverage runs from Kingsolver's first novel, \u003ci\u003eThe Bean Trees,\u003c\/i\u003e through to her most recent, \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead\u003c\/i\u003e. \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003eAuthor of the only biography of Barbara Kingsolver and of a reader's guide to \u003ci\u003eThe Poisonwood Bible,\u003c\/i\u003e Wagner-Martin has become the leading authority on this Pulitzer-prize-wining author. Here she covers every work in Kingsolver's \u003ci\u003eoeuvre\u003c\/i\u003e, emphasizing the writer's blend of the scientific method in which she was formally trained with her convincing understanding of the human characters that fill her books. \u003cbr\u003eWhat Kingsolver achieves throughout all her writing is a seamless blending of the various parts of human existence. She melds important themes through parts and pieces of the natural world   the African snakes, the Monarch butterflies, the coyotes in Deanna Wolfe's existence. Repeatedly Kingsolver writes to create both characters and the characters' worlds, bringing all these pieces into masterful, and whole, realities.\u003cbr\u003eThis edition includes two new chapters - one on her 2018 novel, \u003ci\u003eUnsheltered\u003c\/i\u003e, and the second on her 2022 novel, \u003ci\u003eDemon Copperhead - \u003c\/i\u003eand is the first study of Kingsolver to publish since she was awarded the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction in 2023.","brand":"Ships in 10 to 15 days","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":46636924240030,"sku":"UBD-9798765113813","price":46.78,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0400\/9043\/5742\/files\/9798765113813.jpg?v=1774399769","url":"https:\/\/classicbargains.com.au\/products\/9798765113813","provider":"Classic Bargains Australia","version":"1.0","type":"link"}