Animal Dreams
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Animal Dreams
by Authors:
Barbara Kingsolver
Released: 01 August, 1991
ISBN: 0060921145
Paperback
Sales Rank: 14,813
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Customer Review #1:
 Excellent , Thought-Provoking and Insightful
Like all of Ms. Kingsolvers books, Animal Dreams is so well written that you are accutely aware of the authors genius as you read. The characters are so well developed you can "feel" and "see" them. Intricate storylines are delicately and seamlessly woven together with beautiful prose, creating a "big picture" that is cohesive and thoroughly believeable. Without giving too much of the storyline away, Ms. Kingsolvers ability to subtly incorporate several social and political issues into her story - family relationships, Contras in Nicaragua, American Indians, ecology and corporate responsibility, to name a few - makes this book multidimensional. In my opinion, this is not Ms. Kingsolvers best book ... but she was well on her way to perfecting her incredible writing and storytelling skills while writing this book. It is an excellent, thought-provoking read.
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Customer Review #2:
Amazing, interesting and thought-provoking
This book has continued to haunt me with its beauty, its characters, and its social commentary a year after I read it. As Kingsolver so often does in her books, this story actually contains many interwoven threads, all bound together tightly yet so sparklingly different. There is the story of the main character moving back to Grace, Arizona and her readjustment. Theres her relationship with her sister, her father, her lover, the community, her students/administration at the school where she works, etc. Her sister also provides an interesting thread as she works in Central America in an unpopular yet worthy cause. The book sheds light on relationships of the type mentioned above, while also providing insight into how the American media portrays foreign relations. And with all these interesting, thought-provoking threads, it is still a downright interesting story with absolutely beautiful wording. Kingsolvers best, in my opinion, and one of my all-time favorite books.
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Customer Review #3:
Kingsolver at her best!
There are many kinds of love. Codi Noline, who can barely remember her girlhood in tiny Grace, Arizona, allows herself to feel one kind only. She and younger sister Hallie have been inseparable since their mothers death, three decades ago when Hallie was a newborn baby and Codi a three-year-old. But now agricultural specialist Hallie decides to drive herself to Nicaragua, to help the people there with their crops - just as Graces only physician, "Doc Homer" Noline, reaches a stage of Alzheimers at which its obvious someone must go home and keep an eye on him.So Codi, who finished medical school but discovered during residency that she wasnt cut out to follow in her fathers footsteps, leaves her job clerking in a 7-11 and her liaison with a man about whom she has no strong feelings to hold her. She takes a one-year job teaching science at the local high school, and re-connects with her girlhood best friend (who rents Codi a small house next to her own family). Codi never felt at home in Grace before, and she feels totally alien to it now. But staying aloof, maintaining the emotional distance on which she depends for her sense of safety, doesnt work in this place where people she fails to remember insist on recognizing and acknowledging her. Memories she can barely touch pique her curiosity, and so does the slow death of Graces great treasure, its magnificent orchards. Slowly, the woman who needs no one and doesnt want that to change finds herself connecting with those around her anyway. Family. Community. The environment. The authors usual themes are all here, along with - to my surprise - one of the most touching yet realistic romantic love stories Ive ever read. "Animal Dreams" is Kingsolver at her best!
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