High tide in Tucson : (Record no. 9727)
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| 000 -LEADER | |
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| fixed length control field | 02369cam a2200205Ia 4500 |
| INTERNATIONAL STANDARD BOOK NUMBER | |
| ISBN | 0060927569 |
| DEWEY DECIMAL CLASSIFICATION NUMBER | |
| Classification number | PS3561.1496 .H54 1995 |
| MAIN ENTRY--AUTHOR NAME | |
| Personal name | Kingsolver, Barbara. |
| TITLE STATEMENT | |
| Title | High tide in Tucson : |
| Remainder of title | essays from now or never / |
| Statement of responsibility, etc | Barbara Kingsolver ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha. |
| EDITION STATEMENT | |
| Edition statement | 1st HarperPerennial ed. |
| Copyright Date | |
| Place of publication | Canada |
| Name of publisher | Harper perennial |
| Year of publication or production | 1995 |
| PHYSICAL DESCRIPTION | |
| Number of Pages | xi, 273 pages : |
| Other physical details | illustrations ; |
| FORMATTED CONTENTS NOTE | |
| Formatted contents note | High tide in Tucson -- Creation stories -- Making peace -- In case you ever want to go home again -- How Mr. Dewey Decimal saved my life -- Life without go-go boots -- The household zen -- Semper fi -- The muscle mystique -- Civil disobedience at breakfast -- Somebody's baby -- Paradise lost -- Confessions of a reluctant rock goddess -- Stone soup -- The spaces between -- Postcards from the imaginary mom -- The memory place -- The vibrations of Djoogbe -- Infernal paradise -- In the belly of the beast -- Jabberwocky -- The forest in the seeds -- Careful what you let in the door -- The not-so-deadly sin -- Reprise. |
| SUMMARY, ETC. | |
| Summary, etc | Twenty-six essays explore themes of family, community, and the natural world while considering such specific topics as modern motherhood, paper dolls, and high-tide oysters. Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of readers with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven. In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Barbara Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Kingsolver's canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Authors, American |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American essays |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | American essays. |
| SUBJECT ADDED ENTRY--TOPICAL TERM | |
| Topical Term | Authors, American. |
| ADDED ENTRY ELEMENTS (KOHA) | |
| Koha item type | Books |
| Permanent Location | Current Location | Date acquired | Full call number | Accession Number | Koha item type |
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| Kaduna Study Centre | Kaduna Study Centre | 09/10/2023 | PS3561.1496 .H54 1995 | 0174671 | Books |