The lacuna : a novel
Record details
- ISBN: 0060852577
- ISBN: 9780060852573
- ISBN: 9780060852573
- ISBN: 0060852577
- ISBN: 9781554684755
- ISBN: 1554684757
- ISBN: 9780571252640
- ISBN: 0571252648
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Physical Description:
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x, 507 pages ; 24 cm - Edition: 1st ed.
- Publisher: New York ; Ontario : Harper, 2009.
Content descriptions
Summary, etc.: | "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher. |
Awards Note: | Orange Prize for Fiction, 2010. |
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Subject: | Americans Mexico Fiction Identity (Psychology) Fiction Subversive activities Fiction Mexico History 1910-1946 Fiction North Carolina History 20th century Fiction |
Genre: | Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Epistolary fiction. Biographical fiction. Historical fiction. Epistolary fiction. |
Other Formats and Editions
Location | Call Number / Copy Notes | Barcode | Shelving Location | Status | Due Date |
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Oliver Wolcott Library - Litchfield | FIC KINGSOLVER, B (Text) | 36123118062353 | Adult Fiction | Checked out | 04/04/2024 |
Electronic resources
Author Notes
The Lacuna : A Novel
Barbara Kingsolver was born on April 8, 1955 in Annapolis, Maryland and grew up in Eastern Kentucky. As a child, Kingsolver used to beg her mother to tell her bedtime stories. She soon started to write stories and essays of her own, and at the age of nine, she began to keep a journal. After graduating with a degree in biology form De Pauw University in Indiana in 1977, Kingsolver pursued graduate studies in biology and ecology at the University of Arizona in Tucson. She earned her Master of Science degree in the early 1980s. A position as a science writer for the University of Arizona soon led Kingsolver into feature writing for journals and newspapers. Her articles have appeared in a number of publications, including The Nation, The New York Times, and Smithsonian magazines. In 1985, she married a chemist, becoming pregnant the following year. During her pregnancy, Kingsolver suffered from insomnia. To ease her boredom when she couldn't sleep, she began writing fiction Barbara Kingsolver's first fiction novel, The Bean Trees, published in 1988, is about a young woman who leaves rural Kentucky and finds herself living in urban Tucson. Since then, Kingsolver has written other novels, including Holding the Line, Homeland, and Pigs in Heaven. In 1995, after the publication of her essay collection High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never, Kingsolver was awarded an Honorary Doctorate of Letters from her alma mater, De Pauw University. Her latest works include The Lacuna and Flight Behavior. Barbara's nonfiction book, Animal, Vegetable, Miracle was written with her family. This is the true story of the family's adventures as they move to a farm in rural Virginia and vow to eat locally for one year. They grow their own vegetables, raise their own poultry and buy the rest of their food directly from farmers markets and other local sources. (Bowker Author Biography)