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- David Keymer, SUNY Inst. of Technology, Utica
Copyright 1990 Reed Business Information, Inc. --This text refers to an out of print or unavailable edition of this title.
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His two girls are curled together like animals whose habit is to sleep underground, in the smallest space possible. Read the first page
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1.0 out of 5 stars
not into kingsolver at all...,
By Ei "crzybookmoovielover" (Seekonk, Massachusetts) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animal Dreams (Paperback)
I tried to read this book, first time around I got half way through, then got bored. It was certainly descriptive, even if I could have cared less about the characters. Also, the writer doesn't write her characters to be likable. So just what is her point?I tried to read it again, and totally didn't like Kingsolver's style of writing. She is boring! Also, she just tries to use big words to make up for lack of talent. This is pure drivel. Try Cathie Pelletier, now there is a writer! Kingsolver is all hype.
4 of 4 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
Kingsolver at her best!,
By Nina M. Osier (Randolph, ME USA) - See all my reviews
This review is from: Animal Dreams (Paperback)
There are many kinds of love. Codi Noline, who can barely remember her girlhood in tiny Grace, Arizona, allows herself to feel one kind only. She and younger sister Hallie have been inseparable since their mother's death, three decades ago when Hallie was a newborn baby and Codi a three-year-old. But now agricultural specialist Hallie decides to drive herself to Nicaragua, to help the people there with their crops - just as Grace's only physician, "Doc Homer" Noline, reaches a stage of Alzheimer's at which it's obvious someone must go home and keep an eye on him.So Codi, who finished medical school but discovered during residency that she wasn't cut out to follow in her father's footsteps, leaves her job clerking in a 7-11 and her liaison with a man about whom she has no strong feelings to hold her. She takes a one-year job teaching science at the local high school, and re-connects with her girlhood best friend (who rents Codi a small house next to her own family). Codi never felt at home in Grace before, and she feels totally alien to it now. But staying aloof, maintaining the emotional distance on which she depends for her sense of safety, doesn't work in this place where people she fails to remember insist on recognizing and acknowledging her. Memories she can barely touch pique her curiosity, and so does the slow death of Grace's great treasure, its magnificent orchards. Slowly, the woman who needs no one and doesn't want that to change finds herself connecting with those around her anyway. Family. Community. The environment. The author's usual themes are all here, along with - to my surprise - one of the most touching yet realistic romantic love stories I've ever read. "Animal Dreams" is Kingsolver at her best!
2 of 3 people found the following review helpful
5.0 out of 5 stars
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This review is from: Animal Dreams (Paperback)
Simply put, "Animal Dreams" is one of the most poignant, piercingly beautiful stories I've ever read. Magnificent writing. This is not just a "novel." It is literature.Synopses or overviews tend to give away too much of the story. Briefly, a young woman's journey into her past brings her to the present, with an eye to a hopeful future. The setting of a small southwestern town is depicted so vividly and alluringly, it will make you wish you could find it and move there. Barbara Kingsolver uses virtually every ingredient that transforms a story into a great book. A beautiful balance of joy, anger, love, despair, and hope.
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