The Poisonwood Bible
by Kingsolver, Barbara
- Used
- Hardcover
- first
- Condition
- Very good, 1st printing, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards clean with gilt spine titling bright; slight forward lea
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
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About This Item
New York: HarperFlamingo, 1998. 1st. hardback. Very good, 1st printing, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards clean with gilt spine titling bright; slight forward lean otherwise text block firm; untrimmed pages unmarked; owner's ex libris plate on ffep.. 8vo (230 x 150 / 9"" x 6""). 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. They carry with them everything they believe they will need from home, but soon find that all of it--from garden seeds to Scripture--is calamitously transformed on African soil. What follows is a suspenseful epic of one family's tragic undoing and remarkable reconstruction over the course of three decades in postcolonial Africa. The novel is set against one of the most dramatic political chronicles of the twentieth century: the Congo's fight for independence from Belgium, the murder of its first elected prime minister, the CIA coup to install his replacement, and the insidious progress of a world economic order that robs the fledgling African nation of its autonomy. Taking its place alongside the classic works of postcolonial literature, this ambitious novel establishes Kingsolver as one of the most thoughtful and daring of modern writers.
Synopsis
The Poisonwood Bible (1998) by Barbara Kingsolver is a bestselling novel about a missionary family, the Prices, who in 1959 move from Georgia to the fictional village of Kilanga in the Belgian Congo. The Prices' story, which parallels their host country's tumultuous emergence into the post-colonial era, is narrated by the five women of the family: Orleanna, long-suffering wife of Baptist missionary Nathan Price, and their four daughters – Rachel, Leah, Adah, and Ruth May.
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- Bookseller
- Inklings & Yarnspinners (GB)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- IYC109451
- Title
- The Poisonwood Bible
- Author
- Kingsolver, Barbara
- Format/Binding
- Hardback
- Book Condition
- Used - Very good, 1st printing, unclipped d/j (a little bumping); black boards clean with gilt spine titling bright; slight forward lea
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- 1st
- Binding
- Hardcover
- ISBN 10
- 0060175400
- ISBN 13
- 9780060175405
- Publisher
- HarperFlamingo
- Place of Publication
- New York
- Date Published
- 1998
- Pages
- 546
- Keywords
- 1st, fiction, Kingsolver
- Bookseller catalogs
- 2nd-hand books;
- X weight
- 0.88 g
- Size
- 8vo (230 x 150 / 9\"\" x 6\"\")
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