Small Wonder

Cover Type: Hardcover
Book Condition: Fine
Jacket Condition: Fine
Publisher: Harper Collins
Publisher Place: New York
Publisher Year: 2002
Edition: First Edition

Description: 11.50 pages. Book and Jacket appear to have hardly been read and are both in Fine condition throughout.

Publishers Description: In her new essay collection, the beloved author of High Tide in Tucson brings to us out of one of historys darker moments an extended love song to the world we still have. From its opening parable gleaned from recent news about a lost child saved in an astonishing way, the book moves on to consider a world of surprising and hopeful prospects, ranging from an inventive conservation scheme in a remote jungle to the backyard flock of chickens tended by the authors small daughter.Whether she is contemplating the Grand Canyon, her vegetable garden, motherhood, adolescence, genetic engineering, TV-watching, the history of civil rights, or the future of a nation founded on the best of all human impulses, these essays are grounded in the authors belief that our largest problems have grown from the earths remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in those places, too. In the voice Kingsolvers readers have come to rely onsometimes grave, occasionally hilarious, and ultimately persuasiveSmall Wonder is a hopeful examination of the people we seem to be, and what we might yet make of ourselves.

ISBN: 9780060504076