High tide in Tucson : essays from now or never / Barbara Kingsolver ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.
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TextPublisher: New York : HarperCollins PublishersCopyright date: ©1995Edition: First editionDescription: xi, 273 pages : illustrations ; 22 cmContent type: - text
- unmediated
- volume
- General
- 0060172916
- 814/.54 20
- PS3561.I496 H54 1995
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Idaho Springs Public Library | ANF | 814.54 KIN (Browse shelf(Opens below)) | Available | 3ISPL00206178X |
Displaying a diverse background and multiple interests, Kingsolver has written about subjects as varied as the biological clock of hermit crabs, tourist wanderings in Benin, and visiting an obsolete Titan missile site. The recurring themes here are the wonder and excitement of parenting; the respect for all creatures, religions, and points of view; and the importance of the natural world in our lives. She weaves these themes throughout her essays and presents readers with a vision of beliefs too often undervalued in our modern world. The author, a skilled observer of both people and nature, claims "to want to know and to write, about the places where disparate points of view rub together?the spaces between." These essays are her attempts to open the doors for her readers to see into those spaces.
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