Animal, Vegetable, Miracle - Tenth Anniversary Edition: A Year of Food Life

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$19.99  $18.59
Publisher
Harper Perennial
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Pages
432
Dimensions
5.3 X 7.9 X 1.0 inches | 1.0 pounds
Language
English
Type
Paperback
EAN/UPC
9780062653055

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About the Author

Barbara Kingsolver is the author of ten bestselling works of fiction, including the novels Unsheltered, The Bean Trees, and The Poisonwood Bible, as well as books of poetry, essays, creative nonfiction, and Coyote's Wild Home, a children's book co-authored with Lily Kingsolver. She also collaborated with family members on the influential Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life. Kingsolver's work has been translated into more than thirty languages and has earned a devoted readership at home and abroad. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters, and has received numerous awards and honors including the 2023 Pulitzer Prize for Fiction for her novel, Demon Copperhead, the National Humanities Medal, and most recently, the National Book Foundation's Medal for Distinguished Contribution to American Letters and its Lifetime Achievement Award. She lives with her husband on a farm in southern Appalachia.

Camille Kingsolver graduated from Duke University in 2009 and currently works in the mental health field. She is an active advocate for the local-food movement, doing public speaking for young adults of her own generation navigating food choices in a difficult economy. She lives in Asheville, N.C., and grows a vegetable garden in her front yard.

Steven L. Hopp was trained in life sciences and received his PhD from Indiana University. He has published papers in bioacoustics, ornithology, animal behavior and more recently in sustainable agriculture. He is the founder and director of the Meadowview Farmers Guild, a community development project that includes a local foods restaurant and general store that source their products locally. He teaches at Emory & Henry College in the Environmental Studies department. He coauthored Animal, Vegetable, Miracle with Barbara Kingsolver and Camille Kingsolver.

Reviews

"Charming, zestful, funny and poetic...This is a serious book about important problems...The authors of ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE...add three powerful voices...to the swelling chorus of concern about the food we grow, buy and eat." -- Washington Post Book World

"A profound, graceful, and literary work of philosophy and economics, well tempered for our times, and yet timeless....It will change the way you enter a grocery store, will change the way you look at the food you put into your body. Which is to say, It can change who you are." -- Boston Globe

"Charming...Literary magic...If you love the narrative voice of Barbara Kingsolver, you will be thrilled by her newest book...ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE is a fervent reminder of truths we blithely ignore." -- Houston Chronicle

"A hybrid book...part memoir...part call to action, part education, part recipe collection...ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE makes an important contribution to the chorus of voices calling for change." -- Chicago Tribune

"It's a lovely book. One wants with all one's heart to sit with [Kingsolver] on the porch at the end of the day and shell peas." -- Los Angeles Times

"Cogent and illuminating...There are many ways for a writer to tell you to eat your vegetables...Barbara Kingsolver's way is both folksy and smart...Without sentimentality, this book captures the pulse of the farm and the deep gratification it provides, as well as the intrinsic humor of the situation." -- Janet Maslin, New York Times