Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 4.06 | 59715 Users | 2332 Reviews
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| Title | : | Animal Dreams |
| Author | : | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | 1991 by Harper Perennial (first published September 1st 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.Itemize Books Supposing Animal Dreams
| Original Title: | Animal Dreams |
| ISBN: | 0060921145 (ISBN13: 9780060921149) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Cosima "Codi" Noline, Homer Noline, Halimeda "Hallie" Noline, Emelina Domingo, Loyd Peregrina, J.T. Domingo |
| Setting: | Grace, Arizona(United States) |
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Ratings: 4.06 From 59715 Users | 2332 ReviewsCritique Based On Books Animal Dreams
This is the Kalamazoo Public Library's Reading Together 2008 book, and I would highly recommend it. It deals with family issues, Alzheimer's, environmental issues, political issues (specifically Nicaragua in the 1980's), and Native American issues, yet it is not an "issue book." It is a captivating story of a 30-something woman who returns to her small hometown and struggles with opening herself up to life. That may make it sound sappy, but it's not, because Cosima, our protagonist and narrator,There are some books that absolutely touch your inner being from page one till its very end, and this was one of them. I absolutely loved this book. The way in which Ms. Kingsolver presents her characters and writes is certainly one that shows an easy going momentum of life's options and changes. Our main character, Calli is a woman lost. Coming from a life where she can't seem to find roots, we meet her beloved sister, Hallie, and her cold, unemotional father, Doc Homer. The book is sad and
I am feeling a very eerie sort of calm now. But I also feel my throat still choked up, the way it does when you want to suppress your tears.I will have to read it again, much slowly the next time, because I feel like I did no justice to the book by reading it the way I did. Codi's voice was too disturbingly similar. At the end of it all, however, I cant help but wonder if I could do what she did - jump on that train, despite or because of everything that transpired through the text. I wonder if
I was a bit disturbed that I could appreciate this book. While I have liked a lot of Kingsolver's other work, this particular book is centered around the sort of seriously damaged character that usually turns me off to a book. And had I read this in high school, or college, or maybe even grad school, I'm fairly certain I would have disliked it tremendously.And yet... having read it when I did, I was able to identify with some elements of the what the character was experiencing, even if I didn't
This book was captivating. Kingsolver has a rare gift of painting emotion with every word. She does not spend pages writing detailed descriptions of a character's face; she spends a novel intertwining characters personalities. You can feel the passion, the heavy sadness; you can see the world in which this story lives. She wrote so beautifully of Native American life, modern city life, loss in many ways (loss of body, mind, feeling, family) but also of gaining all those things back in a
In a letter to Codi, Hallie writes, "'What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.'" This is not a love story as the back of the book may have you believe. Sure, people fall in and out of love within its pages, but this book is really about understanding oneself amid a lifetime of memories and secrets...the risks we take not only when we cheat ourselves, but when we find ourselves, too. I read this for the first time two
This is only the second book that I've read by Barbara Kingsolver, and I'm very interested in learning about her writing process. She has this infectious, cultural curiosity that drives her to learn anything and everything about a place and its people...even if they only exist in her mind. She creates an entire world of history, geography, lineage and folklore. And every character is filled with so much wisdom and humor that I feel like I was given a sneak peak into Kingsolver's personality.
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