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by: Barbara Kingsolver See Larger Image List Price: $14.00 Amazon.com's Price: $11.20 You Save: $2.80 (20%) Prices subject to change. Availability: Usually ships in 24 hours Binding: Paperback Dewey Decimal Number: 813.54 EAN: 9780060922535 ISBN: 0060922532 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 352 Publication Date: April 27, 1994 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: March 18, 1994 Sales Rank: 52319 Studio: Harper Perennial Related Items: The Bean Trees: A Novel Animal Dreams Prodigal Summer: A Novel The Poisonwood Bible: A Novel (P.S.) Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life (P.S.) see more Editorial Review: Product Description: A phenomenal bestseller and winner of the Los Angeles Times Book Award for fiction, Pigs in Heaven continues the story of Taylor and Turtle, first introduced in The Bean Trees. Customer Reviews Average Rating: Rating: - A Slice of Heaven I just finished this book last nite. The fourth of hers I've read now. Barbara takes her time and enjoys each scene with delicacy and sensibility. She's more than just paying attention, she's right careful with the moment, allowing all the love in it to get on the page at its own pace. There's no reason to move on until ALL of the story that's right here, right now has its chance to speak. Here's a line from the book: Cash is sitting in the the boss's office: But Cash had been thinking ... Read More Rating: - Pigs in Heaven: Individualism VS Collectivism In Pigs in Heaven, Barbara Kingsolver breaks the norms of classical or even contemporary novels by creating a complex story with no real hero or true villain. The talk can be over main characters but not one single, major persona that is in the very limelight. The extensive use of symbolism in this novel turns human relationships into philosophical issues, issues that convert the physical, tangible into abstraction, issues that awake inquisitiveness and the critical sort of mind out of the active reader, ... Read More Rating: - She's Amazing. I love all of Barbara Kingsolver's books, but this book and The Bean Trees are her best! Rating: - One of the best books I've ever read Taylor Greer never thought she'd be a mother. But, thanks to a bizarre chain of events in "The Bean Trees," she found herself raising a Cherokee child named Turtle. Now six years old, the little girl who was initially so traumatized by previous abuse that she didn't speak has made herself at home with Taylor and her boyfriend Jackson. To Turtle, they are the only parents she has ever known. But an unexpected moment of recognition attracts the attention of an Oklahoma lawyer, Annawake Fourkiller, ... Read More Rating: - A Woman's Western Many difficult questions lie at the heart of Pigs in Heaven by Barbara Kingsolver. For instance, what constitutes a family? How important is it for a child to know her roots, her culture, and her history if she has love? Taylor Greer finds an abandoned Indian baby in her car and upon seeing the "Compassion, International" look in her eyes and evidence of abuse, decides to adopt her. Fast-forward three years: on a vacation with her mother, the young child, Turtle, is the only witness to a man falling ... Read More see more

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