The Poisonwood Bible Paperback - 2023
by Barbara Kingsolver
Kingsolver's national bestseller paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Examine how the tragedy of the Price family mirrors the political unrest in the Congo, how the novel views religion and marriage, and how Kingsolver reconciles the demands of art with her belief that writing should support a political cause.
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The Poisonwood Bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, evangelical Baptist who takes his family and mission to the Belgian Congo in 1959. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it -- from garden seeds to Scripture -- is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa.
This P.S. edition features an extra 16 pages of insights into the book, including author interviews, recommended reading, and more.Details
- Title The Poisonwood Bible
- Author Barbara Kingsolver
- Binding Paperback
- Edition 1st
- Pages 560
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York, New York, U.S.A.
- Date 2023-07-11
- Features Bibliography, Table of Contents
- ISBN 9780060786502 / 0060786507
- Weight 1.25 lbs (0.57 kg)
- Dimensions 7.9 x 5.2 x 1.4 in (20.07 x 13.21 x 3.56 cm)
- Reading level 960
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Themes
- Cultural Region: African
- Demographic Orientation: Rural
- Demographic Orientation: Small Town
- Religious Orientation: Christian
- Sex & Gender: Feminine
- Topical: Coming of Age
- Topical: Family
- Library of Congress subjects Domestic fiction, Historical fiction
- Dewey Decimal Code FIC
Media reviews
Citations
- Commonweal, 06/17/2005, Page 25
- Ingram Advance, 07/01/2005, Page 49
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