4 November 2009
I enjoyed Animal Dreams and Prodigal Summer, the two Barbara Kingsolver novels I’ve read. Animal, Vegetable, Miracle is one that’s been recommended to me several times over, so it’s on my (mental) list. Lots of to-do about her new historical novel Lacuna; Maureen Corrigan of NPR thinks you shouldn’t believe the hype.
Interesting are Corrigan’s comments about Kingsolver as a cross-over writer, between genre — the blockbuster novels that are currently “caught in the cross-hairs” of the Amazon/Target/Wal-mart book price wars — and literary. Lacuna is the only literary novel among the books being sold en masse/deeply discounted by the big-box stores in the current kerfuffle. Will be interesting to see other reviews as they accumulate.
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