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Small Wonder / Barbara Kingsolver ; illustrations by Paul Mirocha.

By: Material type: TextTextPublication details: New York : Perennial, 2003, ©2002.Edition: 1st Perennial edDescription: xvi, 267 pages : illustrations ; 21 cmContent type:
  • text
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  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780060504083
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Contents:
Illustrated catalog of wonders -- Foreword -- Small wonder -- Saying grace -- Knowing our place -- Patience of a saint -- Seeing scarlet -- Setting free the crabs -- A forest's last stand -- Called out -- A fist in the eye of God -- Lily's chickens -- The one-eyed monster, and why I don't let him in -- Letter to a daughter at thirteen -- Letter to my mother -- Going to Japan -- Life is precious, or it's not -- Flying -- Household words -- What good is a story? -- Marking a passage -- Taming the beast with two backs -- Stealing apples -- And our flag was still there -- God's wife's measuring spoons -- Acknowledgments.
Summary: Twenty-two optimistic essays cover such topics as nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the challenges of war, poverty, and violence.
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Essays

Our largest problems have grown from the earth's remotest corners as well as our own backyards, and that answers may lie in both those places.

Illustrated catalog of wonders -- Foreword -- Small wonder -- Saying grace -- Knowing our place -- Patience of a saint -- Seeing scarlet -- Setting free the crabs -- A forest's last stand -- Called out -- A fist in the eye of God -- Lily's chickens -- The one-eyed monster, and why I don't let him in -- Letter to a daughter at thirteen -- Letter to my mother -- Going to Japan -- Life is precious, or it's not -- Flying -- Household words -- What good is a story? -- Marking a passage -- Taming the beast with two backs -- Stealing apples -- And our flag was still there -- God's wife's measuring spoons -- Acknowledgments.

Twenty-two optimistic essays cover such topics as nature, family, literature, and the joys of everyday life while examining the challenges of war, poverty, and violence.

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