The Poisonwood Bible
eBook - 2009
New York Times Bestseller • Finalist for the Pulitzer Prize • An Oprah's Book Club Selection"Powerful . . . [Kingsolver] has with infinitely steady hands worked the prickly threads of religion, politics, race, sin and redemption into a thing of terrible beauty." —Los Angeles Times Book ReviewThe Poisonwood Bible, now celebrating its 25th anniversary, established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, it is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in Africa.The story is told by the wife and four daughters of Nathan Price, a fierce, ev...angelical 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...
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HarperCollins
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- English
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- Adobe EPUB eBook, Kindle Book, OverDrive Read eBook
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File Size | 3 GB |
ISBN | 9780061804816 |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |
Kindle Book | |
ASIN | B000QTE9WU |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |
OverDrive Read eBook | |
ISBN | 9780061804816 |
Release Date | 10/13/2009 |