Animal Dreams

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"AnimálDreams is a növel that feels doser to the truth about modern lives than anything l've read in a long time An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers."
—Louise Bernikow, Cosmopohtan
"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime, just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Oreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, somé startiing clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animál Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving... Tovább

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FICTION
"AnimálDreams is a növel that feels doser to the truth about modern lives than anything l've read in a long time An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers."
—Louise Bernikow, Cosmopohtan
"Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime, just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Oreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona, to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, somé startiing clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animál Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Beán Trees and Homeland and OtherStoríes sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.
"Rich, complex, witty This is a sweet book, full of bittér pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time."
—Ursula K. Le Guin, Washington Post Book World "Kingsolver probes the humán heart with uncommon wisdom. Animál Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited növel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal." —Dan Cryer, New York Newsday
Barbara Kingsolver is the author of five other books. She srew up in eastern Kentucky and now lives with her daughter in Tucson, Arizona. Vissza