![]() ![]() ![]() Within moments of meeting, this unlikely pair embarks on a strange and profligate mating dance on the remote Appalachian peak where Deanna oversees a nature preserve. Reclusive game warden Deanna Wolfe, in search of a den of rare Appalachian coyotes, finds herself pursued by Eddie Bondo, a Wyoming bounty hunter nearly 20 years her junior. ![]() "Prodigal Summer" opens as a lovingly rendered pastoral, in which nearly every paragraph celebrates renewal and fecundity. ![]() Disturb the delicate balance of nature, and quality of life for all species degenerates. And that, of course, is Kingsolver's point: All creatures are necessary in a harmonious world. No single character - from humans to goats to black snakes to spiders - is more important than another. Though varied in size, no one plot line dominates. Interweaving three stories of rural life in a southwestern Virginia hollow, Kingsolver makes nature herself (including the humans who are but a small part of it) her novel's heroine. In "Prodigal Summer," Barbara Kingsolver offers up a remarkable triptych in which the protagonist is not a single character but an entire ecosystem. ![]()
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