![]() ![]() The title of this novel, Prodigal Summer, recognizes that the book takes place one summer in the luxuriant Appalachian mountains in a fecund environment appropriate for an extravagant and passionate, though not entirely rational, romance between a young environmentalist and a local working class man. At a speaking engagement at little Emory & Henry College in Southwest Virginia, she met her current husband, a professor there, and she still lives nearby. After earning a masters in ecology at the University of Arizona, she became first a science writer and then a novelist. The multi-talented Kingsolver attended DePauw Uiversity on a music scholarship, but ended up majoring in biology. Kingsolver grew up in Carlisle, Kentucky, where her father was the town doctor. The depth of Barbara Kingsolvers joyous love affair with nature is. ![]() Among her many honors is the United Kingdom's Orange Prize in fiction for the outstanding book, world-wide, in the English language!. Prodigal Summer by Barbara Kingsolver 2000, Harper Collins: NY. The three characters have exclusive opinions about the natural environment. Prodigal Summer alternates between three tales about Deanna Wolfe, Lusa Landowski, and Garnett Walker. We are thankful for their contributions and encourage you to make your own. Barbara Kingsolver is clearly one of America's and Appalachia's very most popular and critically acclaimed contemporary authors. These notes were contributed by members of the GradeSaver community. ![]()
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