The Poisonwood Bible
By Barbara Kingsolver
(Harper Perennial Modern Classics, Paperback, 9780060786502, 576pp.)
Publication Date: May 12, 2005
Other Editions of This Title: Paperback (May 22, 2008), MP3 CD (August 2004), Compact Disc (August 2004), Mass Market Paperback (February 2003), Paperback (October 1999), Audio Cassette (November 1998), Hardcover (September 18, 1998), Hardcover (August 1998)
Categories: Literary
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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.Barbara Kingsolver is the author of seven works of fiction, including the novels The Poisonwood Bible, Animal Dreams, and The Bean Trees, as well as books of poetry, essays, and creative nonfiction. Her most recent book is the enormously influential bestseller Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than twenty languages and has earned literary awards and a devoted readership at home and abroad. In 2000 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal, our country's highest honor for service through the arts. She lives with her family on a farm in southern Appalachia.
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