Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

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Barbara Kingsolver

Flight Behaviour

Name: Flight Behaviour
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ISBN: 9780571290802

Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

Barbara Kingsolver

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Faber & Faber
27 May 2013

Fiction & Literature; Modern & contemporary fiction (post c 1945)

ABBEY'S BOOKSELLER PICK ----- Dellarobia is a young mother so discontented with her poverty-stricken life on a failing farm in the Appalachian Mountains that she impulsively decides to have an affair. On her way to consummate it, she stumbles across something so impossible as to be a miracle. But is it? Or is it a sign of something more disturbing – a freak of nature that indicates how far out of whack the world really is? With the Christians of her community celebrating it as one, and visiting researchers treating it as the other, Dellarobia finds her life totally transformed. Thoughtful, powerful and quietly compulsive reading – highly recommended. Lindy

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Discontented with her life of poverty on a failing farm in the Eastern United States, Dellarobia, a young mother, impulsively seeks out an affair. Instead, on the Appalachian mountains above her home, she discovers something much more profoundly life-changing - a beautiful and terrible marvel of nature. As the world around her is suddenly transformed by a seeming miracle, can the old certainties they have lived by for centuries remain unchallenged? Flight Behaviour is a captivating, topical and deeply human story touching on class, poverty and climate change. It is Barbara Kingsolver's most accessible novel yet, and explores the truths we live by, and the complexities that lie behind them.

By: Barbara Kingsolver
Imprint: Faber & Faber
Country of Publication: United Kingdom
Dimensions: Height: 198mm, Width: 126mm, Spine: 36mm
Weight: 485g
ISBN: 9780571290802
ISBN 10: 0571290809
Pages: 608
Publication Date: 27 May 2013
Recommended Age: From 0 to 0 years
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , Professional and scholarly , ELT Advanced , Primary
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Author Website: http://www.kingsolver.com/home/index.asp

Barbara Kingsolver's thirteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels The Bean Trees and the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible which, amongst other accolades, won the 2005 Penguin/Orange Reading Group Book of the Year award. Her most recent novel is The Lacuna.

Reviews for Flight Behaviour: Author of Demon Copperhead, Winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction

'One of the best books about climate change.' NAOMI KLEIN 'Urgent issues demand important art. Flight Behaviour rises - with conscience and majesty - to the occasion of its time.' Guardian 'She is brilliant at creating three-dimensional characters and getting us to care about them Lyrical, socially engaged and passionate. Kingsolver fans will love it.' Sunday Times 'There are many moments of lightness and of great beauty, too.' Independent 'A compelling plot with lyrical passages and flashes of humour.' Sunday Telegraph