Prodigal Summer

De: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver

Triumphing once again, Barbara Kingsolver has written a beautiful new novel: a hymn to wildness that celebrates the prodigal spirit of human nature, and of nature itself

Prodigal Summer weaves together three stories of human love within a larger tapestry of lives in southern Appalachia. At the heart of these intertwined narratives is a den of coyotes that have recently migrated into the region. Deanna Wolfe, a reclusive wildlife biologist, watches them from an isolated mountain cabin where she is caught off-guard by Eddie Bondo, a young hunter who comes to invade her most private spaces and her solitary life. Down the mountain, another web of lives unfolds as Lusa Maluf Landowski, a bookish city girl turned farmer's wife, finds herself in a strange place where she must declare or lose her attachment to the land that has become her own. And a few more miles down the road, a pair of elderly, feuding neighbors tend their respective farms and wrangle about God, pesticides, and the possibilities the future holds.

Over the course of one long summer, these characters find connections to one another, and to the land, and the final, urgent truth that humans are only one piece of life on earth.

Read by the author.

Perfection!

If you have any experience living in nature, then in this book will feel like coming home. Barbara’s passion for environmental harmony is synchronous with her tremendous ability to entertain. You will laugh and you’ll cry and hopefully you will understand your place and this amazing world just a little bit better.

Don't usually like authors to narrate, but,

Where does Prodigal Summer rank among all the audiobooks you’ve listened to so far?

This is definitely and still in my top five!

What was one of the most memorable moments of Prodigal Summer?

I love the way she weaves the different story lines and characters together. And, the natural world is explained and shown to have it's own persistent and undeniable purpose, presence and influence. I read this years ago and my listening to this book did not dissapoint.

What about Barbara Kingsolver’s performance did you like?

She has a soft pleasant lilting voice which serves her material well. I have found a number of books where the author makes the mistake of narrating. If I don't like the narrator I won't buy or listen to the box. You will not be dissapointed with Kingsolver's performance!

If you were to make a film of this book, what would be the tag line be?

Iit's all a big sexual circus!

Any additional comments?

The science in this book is amazing. The age-span of the characters and issues presented our astonishing.

I’ve thought about this book for years

When I first got this book quite frankly I forgot about it and didn’t finish it for two years, however, it was a book I continually thought about. I always thought of moths and coyotes after and just how she transports you to wherever she is. Years later I read the entire book and was surprised at how much I not only loved it, but how much I learned. I loved this book, I loved where it took me, and how she brings everything together for the larger picture of life.

Not a good listen

The author writes well, reads poorly with childlike voice. Had to give up. As far as I could go, the story is interesting

Succulent, fecund, life!

Although I've read this book through several times, listening to it was a novel (sorry) experience. Each word entered my mind more clearly, each word chosen with care, and built the sensory drama of life all around me.

I enjoyed the author's reading of her own work very much. I remembered having read her essay "taming the two-humped beast,' if I remember right, about writing this book. She generated for me a lavish sense of summer and of the inter-connectedness of all life; deeply refreshing from my arid plot in the now cold, grey Karoo winter.