High Tide in Tucson

Essays from Now or Never

De: Barbara Kingsolver

Narrado por: Barbara Kingsolver

Barbara Kingsolver has entertained and touched the lives of legions of listeners with her critically acclaimed and bestselling novels The Bean Trees, Animal Dreams, and Pigs in Heaven.

In these twenty-five newly conceived essays, she returns once again to her favored literary terrain to explore the themes of family, community, and the natural world. With the eyes of a scientist and the vision of a poet, Kingsolver writes about notions as diverse as modern motherhood, the history of private property, and the suspended citizenship of humans in the animal kingdom. Her canny pursuit of meaning from an inscrutable world compels us to find instructions for life in surprising places: a museum of atomic bomb relics, a West African voodoo love charm, an iconographic family of paper dolls, the ethics of a wild pig who persistently invades a garden, a battle of wills with a two-year-old, or a troop of oysters who observe high tide in the middle of Illinois.

In sharing her thoughts about the urgent business of being alive, Kingsolver the essayist employs the same keen eyes, persuasive tongue, and understanding heart that characterize her acclaimed fiction.

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Reseñas de la Crítica

"There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature." (Washington Post Book World)

Joyful

Each night owl listen reveals new delights. Another confirmation of why I anxiously await for more.

Perfection

For some reason, I’ve had this in my library for probably a couple of years but never read/listened to it. BK’s writing is beautiful & I love her narration. (If you’re looking for a full novel, check out Prodigal Summer - my favorite.) I think of myself as not preferring to listen to essays, but I was reminded that some of these stories are perfect. Thought provoking & thoughtfully impactful language. Don’t hesitate!

An environmental must read

She reads with such honesty and her stories speak volumes about our world
She made us think about how we’ve been taught to take war for granted

Timeless, Genuine & Wonderful!!!

Read this at least 30years ago and a friend recommended I listen to it! Fell in LOVE once again with BK!!!

I love love love her books. I can't wait for a new

I love that she reads her own work for the Audible books. It's an awesome voice to listen to. And I feel that I'm hearing the voice that is in the story.

Gorgeous Barbara Kingsolver at her best

The lovely lilt of the author's voice is as her words. All colors of humanity and life and woven into a tapestry that is as rich, smooth and luscious as it is jilting, rough and horrorific. She takes us by the hand to visit the darkest holes, dresses us up in facts and frightening truths and cradles us gently on a moss covered rock where the leafs are silent and the water gurgles around so we can again bear to see our reflection with eyes jolted and heart ripped open; another new moment to live love and look at what is with wonder. This book is political poetry, a gardener's inspiration and bold bravery. A whole circle danced with all the colors of human value. So grateful to hear it again.

Simply beautiful Kingsolver treat

I adored listening to this. She reminded me of the fragile beauties of flora and fauna and past lives that exist in the desert and my fondness for the Tucson area in particular. I had somehow missed the fact that she grew up in a small Kentucky town and enjoyed hearing about it with the hint of that Appalachian accent in her narration. My biggest complaint was my surprise at the Audible version being so short! No! It can’t be over!!
I must have this book on my library shelf.

Kingsolver Magic

I read this book when it was first published; listened to it on audio some years later and then purchased it again on audible. Kingsolver's stories are a blend of subtle humor and a life perspective that is thoughtful and appealing. I will read this again and again.

thoughtful

I always love reading her books & listening to her read her work. I enjoy her descriptions of life's simplicities and revel in her ability to illuminate just how extraordinary these simplicities truly are :-)

Such soothing writing with such a soothing voice

I just love everything Barbara Kingsolver writes. She takes me to an interesting and inspiring place where simultaneously soothes me and quiets the other voices so I can become emerged into her stories.