Buy this book on-line KINGSOLVER, BARBARA: : Flight Behaviour - A NovelLONDON.FABER and FABER LIMITED,2012. ISBN 9780571290772.
UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn.[Complete number line 2 4 6 8 10 9 7 5 3 1.] FINE+/FINE+.No owner inscrptn and no price-clip to dw/dj.Bright, crisp,clean,wrap-around,part matt and part glossy,colour photographic illustrated dw/dj, with black lettering; with negligible shelf-wear or creasing to edges and corners - no nicks or tears present.Top+fore-edges bright and clean; contents bright,tight,clean,solid and sound - pristine - no dog-ear reading creases to any pages' corners,appears unread - apart from my own collation.Publisher's bright,crisp,clean, sharp-cornered,original plain black cloth boards with bright,crisp,blocked gilt letters to spine/ backstrip and immaculate plain orange endpapers. UK,8vo HB+dw/dj,1st edn,2-436pp [paginated] includes 14 chapters and author's note at rear; plus [unpaginated] half-title+title pages,a dedication and a title separator page.
Dellarobia Turnbrow is a restless farm wife who gave up her own plans when she accidentally became pregnant at seventeen. Now,after a decade of domestic disharmony on a failing farm,she has settled for permanent disappointment but seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man.She hikes up a mountain road behind her house towards a secret tryst,but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looked like a lake of fire.She can only understand it as a cautionary miracle,but it sparks a raft of other explanations from scientists, religious leaders and the media.The bewildering emergency draws rural farmers into unexpected acquaintance with urbane journalists,opportunists,sightseers,and a striking biologist with his own stake in the outcome.As the community lines up to judge the woman and her miracle,Dellarobia confronts her family,her church,her town and a larger world,in a flight towards truth that could undo all she has ever believed.
'Flight Behaviour' takes on one of the most contentious subjects of our time: climate change.With a deft and versatile empathy Kingsolver dissects the motives that drive denial and belief in a precarious world.
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