The poisonwood Bible : a novel
Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel established Barbara Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. 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.
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Physical Description
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x, 546, 18 pages ; 21 cm. - Edition First Harper Perennial modern classics edition.
- Publisher New York : HarperPerennial, 2005.
- Copyright ©1999.
Content descriptions
General Note: | "P.S., read exclusive extras including: interviews, features, if you loved this... and more inside"--Page 4 of cover. |
Bibliography, etc. Note: | Includes bibliographical references (pages 545-546). |
Formatted Contents Note: | Genesis -- Revelation -- Judges -- Bel and the serpent -- Exodus -- Song of the three children -- Eyes in the trees. |
Target Audience Note: | 960L Lexile |
Study Program Information Note: | Accelerated Reader AR UG 6.6 29 35204. |