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ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE : A Year of Food Life
by Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
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- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Fine
- ISBN 10
- 0060852550
- ISBN 13
- 9780060852559
- Seller
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Berkeley, California, United States
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About This Item
New York, NY: HarperCollins, 2007. 1st Edition 12th Printing. Hardcover. NEW - COLLECTIBLE/Fine. Richard A. Houser (Illustrator). NEW & Collectible. Vintage 1954, First Edition, 12th Printing; first published 1942. Trace, light brown spotting (acidic paper reaction) to upper text block & hard cover front. Raised in Kentucky, trained as a biologist, celebrated novelist & poet Barbara Kingsolver (1955 - ) raised a family in Arizona. Written w/husband Steven L. Hopp, and daughter Camille Kingsolver. Memoir of a record of the family's full year w/naught but locally grown & raised foods gracing their table. 270 pgs in 20 chapters. Kingsolver says the book is a "story of good food", and humorously, might be considered the "Zorba Diet" --- the narrator in Nikos Kazantzakis' Zorba the Greek, who so craved cherries, he advises he be where cherries grow, and wait, with bowl in hand, when ripen, "eat cherries like they're going out of season". The first chapter is hmourously titled: "Waiting for Asparagus, in March".
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- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019338
- Title
- ANIMAL, VEGETABLE, MIRACLE : A Year of Food Life
- Author
- Barbara Kingsolver; Camille Kingsolver; Steven L. Hopp
- Illustrator
- Richard A. Houser (Illustrator)
- Format/Binding
- Hardcover
- Book Condition
- New
- Jacket Condition
- Fine
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st Edition 12th Printing
- ISBN 10
- 0060852550
- ISBN 13
- 9780060852559
- Publisher
- HarperCollins
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 2007
- Keywords
- Memoir, Biography, Rural Self-Maintence, Food, Ecology, Local Produce
- Bookseller catalogs
- Cookery; Ecology;
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