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High Tide in Tucson: Essays from Now or Never
by: Barbara Kingsolver

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Binding: Paperback
Dewey Decimal Number: 814.54
EAN: 9780060927561
ISBN: 0060927569
Label: Harper Perennial
Manufacturer: Harper Perennial
Number Of Items: 1
Number Of Pages: 288
Publication Date: October 09, 1996
Publisher: Harper Perennial
Release Date: August 30, 1996
Sales Rank: 58045
Studio: Harper Perennial

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'There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature,' raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans.

In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom.

Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans.

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- "Inspiring and Encouraging, especially for artists of the written word"
Barbara Kingsolver is an American treasure. This collection of essays is both inspiring and encouraging, especially for artists of the written word. It is a glimpse into the soul of this profound writer.

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- High tide everywhere
The title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver inadvertently carried from the Bahamas to her home in Tucson in a collection of shells she had collected for her young daughter. As she explains, "If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can." "Buster's" behavior occasions wide ranging observations (the author's education was as a naturalist), including the desert tides, and becomes a metaphor for Kingsolver's own dislocation from a rural Kentucky childhood to the Sonoran desert. As an essayist, I am very taken with the author's easy flow from the general to the particular, from the wild world to that of culture, her take on what writing does and what reading means, and the self-deprecating humor with which she fords the flash floods in the arroyo of her life. Her social conscience ... Read More

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- All time favourite
This is my favourite book of all time. I repeatedly go back to chapters to re-read and I have recommended this book to many people over the years.
Barbara Kingsolver's writing and way of looking at the world is thought-provoking and fresh.
My only complaint, as with all of Kingsolver's books, is that one eventually comes to the end!

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- Art to Move Mountains (or Hermit Crab Shells)
Kingsolver holds reign neck and neck with Annie Dillard as two of my favorite naturalist writers and essayists. Kingsolver holds her own as a novelist. In this collection of essays, rewritten and expanded versions, in many cases, from what has been previously published in various magazines, Kingsolver's skill and talent as an essayist shimmers with brilliance and sheer entertainment. Even when she is teaching us a lesson and hammering it home.

Topics have wide range, covering nature, art, values and ethics, human nature and its foibles, politics, and travels. Whether she is pondering the biological clocks of hermit crabs or espousing her views on violence and objectification of women on the silver screen, or taking the reader along on the harsh realities of a not so glamorous book tour, her language is lush and poetic, flowing and vibrant, clever and memorable. I have been quoting her words to anyone who ... Read More

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