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Barbaras prodigal summer, released in november of 2000, is a novel set in a rural farming community in southern appalachia. Orleanna price is the wife of nathan, a zealous baptist missionary, who in 1959 selfrighteously drags his family from bethlehem, georgia, to the congo. Set in the belgian congo during the 1960s, the poisonwood bible takes its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, establishing kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers. She spent years researching her eighth novel, studying dozens and dozens of books about african history and the congolese language, reading and rereading the king james bible fronttoback and backtofront, thumbing through popculture magazines of the 1960s, and traveling to central africa. Her work of narrative nonfiction is the enormously influential bestseller animal, vegetable. Mp3 the poisonwood bible is a story told by the wife and four daughters of nathan price, a fierce, evangelical baptist who takes his family and mission to the belgian congo in 1959. The poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver, paperback. The poisonwood bible by barbara kingsolver audio book. She discussed her story of an evangelical american minister taking his.
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