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will love Sign up for LibraryThing to find out whether you'll like this book. Check out the story about the hermit crabs. (  ) iceT | May 18, 2009 |  Nice commentary on the authors life and beliefs... ( ) cajunbear | Nov 24, 2008 | This collection of essays is my first glimpse into Kingsolver’s writing. To be sure, she’s as good as it gets. Her language is vivid and descriptive, her style mixes sincerity and humor, and her subject matters are poignant yet imaginative. High Tide in Tucson is part memoir, part travel journal and part social commentary – and all enjoyable. I especially liked the essays where she talked about her writing career. She laments how book writing has become a business like anything. She reminisces about her short foray with a rock band made up of other novelists, including Stephen King and Amy Tan (coincidentally, King describes this band in his memoir, On Writing). She also relives the moment when she gets her first book deal. I think, despite her success, Kingsolver is still a vulnerable writer, amazed at her success so far, which makes her so believable to me. This book has definitely piqued my interest into Kingsolver’s fiction. However, I have one more Kingsolver essay collection to get to first, Small Wonders. ( ) mrstreme | Aug 3, 2007 | This is a collection of essays that reminded me a little bit of Annie Dillard in the way they drift back and forth between action and reflection. They are mostly interesting little bits of Kingsolver's autobiography, and are all fascinating. I wasn't expecting to enjoy this book when I found out it was all essays, but it's excellent. (  ) the1butterfly | Jun 22, 2007 | This was one of those important books of my young womanhood, partly because I was living in Tucson at the time this came out and I knew intimately everything she put in words. (  ) wordygirl39 | May 24, 2007 |  no reviews | add a review
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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, a 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. Defiant, funny, courageously honest, High Tide in Tucson proves once again that "there is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature."--Washington Post Book World
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