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Reading Barbara Kingsolver
Lynn M. Houston
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Description for Reading Barbara Kingsolver
Hardback. Explore how Barbara Kingsolver's novels and stories are relevant in today's culture in this essential reader's guide. Series: The Pop Lit Book Club. Num Pages: 149 pages, black & white illustrations. BIC Classification: 1KBB; DSB; JFSJ1. Category: (Y) Teenage / Young Adult. Dimension: 236 x 152 x 15. Weight in Grams: 386.
Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver's life and works are explored in this comprehensive, unique reference guide. Ideal for book club members and essential for high school students, this valuable resource introduces the plot summaries as well as theme and character analysis for seven of Kingsolver's major works. Kingsolver's usual topics, primarily focusing on the working class, environmental issues, feminism, and Native American studies, are closely examined in relation to current events and contemporary popular culture. Also discussed are Kingsolver's presence on the Internet, as well as the media's reception of the author. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking, analytical discussion questions, ideal ... Read more
Best-selling author Barbara Kingsolver's life and works are explored in this comprehensive, unique reference guide. Ideal for book club members and essential for high school students, this valuable resource introduces the plot summaries as well as theme and character analysis for seven of Kingsolver's major works. Kingsolver's usual topics, primarily focusing on the working class, environmental issues, feminism, and Native American studies, are closely examined in relation to current events and contemporary popular culture. Also discussed are Kingsolver's presence on the Internet, as well as the media's reception of the author. Each chapter concludes with thought-provoking, analytical discussion questions, ideal ... Read more
Product Details
Format
Hardback
Publication date
2009
Publisher
Bloomsbury Publishing Plc United States
Number of pages
149
Condition
New
Series
The Pop Lit Book Club
Number of Pages
160
Place of Publication
, United States
ISBN
9780313362910
SKU
V9780313362910
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About Lynn M. Houston
LYNN MARIE HOUSTON is Assistant Professor of American literature at California State University, Chico. Her research interests include postcolonial studies, women's literature, and American food culture JENNIFER WARREN is a student in the Masters program of the English department at California State University, Chico. She is interested in American Modernism and twentieth-century ecofeminism.
Reviews for Reading Barbara Kingsolver
Rather than a reader's guide that connects events in Kingsolver's life and novels, Houston (American literature, California State U., Chico) and Warren (an English master's program student at that campus) present a guide that focuses mainly on an analysis of her writings through 2009 minus poems and most nonfiction: novels, a collection of short stories, and the nonfiction Animal, Vegetable, ... Read more