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Author Kingsolver, Barbara.

Title High tide in Tucson : essays from now or never / Barbara Kingsolver ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.

Publication Info. New York : HarperCollins Publishers, [1995]
©1995

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Location Call No. Status
 Avon Free Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 KINGSOLVER    Check Shelf
 Bloomfield, Prosser Library - Adult Department  814.54 KIN    Storage
 Bristol, Main Library - Non Fiction  814.54 K617    Check Shelf
 Burlington Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 KIN    Check Shelf
 Canton Public Library - Adult Department  814.54 KINGSOLVER    Check Shelf
 Colchester, Cragin Memorial Library - Adult Department  814 KIN    Check Shelf
 Granby, Main Library - Adult  814.54 KIN    Check Shelf
 Mansfield, Main Library - Adult Nonfiction  814.54 KINGSOLVER    Check Shelf
 Marlborough, Richmond Memorial Library - Adult Department  814 KINGSOLVER    Check Shelf
 New Britain, Main Library - Non Fiction  814.54 K61    Check Shelf

Edition 1st ed.
Description xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cm
Contents High tide in Tucson -- Creation stories -- Making peace -- In case you ever want to go home again -- How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life -- Life without go-go boots -- The household zen -- Semper fi -- The muscle mystique -- Civil disobedience at breakfast -- Somebody's baby -- Paradise lost -- Confessions of a reluctant rock goddess -- Stone soup -- The spaces between -- Postcards from the imaginary mom -- The memory place -- The vibrations of Djoogbe -- Infernal paradise -- In the belly of the beast -- Jabberwocky -- The forest in the seeds -- Careful what you let in the door -- The not-so-deadly sin -- Reprise.
Summary Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.
Subject Authors, American -- Kentucky.
Authors, American. (OCoLC)fst00821764
Kentucky. (OCoLC)fst01204494
Teenage girls -- Books and reading -- Personal narratives.
High school libraries -- Kentucky -- Personal narratives.
ISBN 0060172916
9780060172916
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