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Flight Behavior, Barbara Kingsolver
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- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
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- Titel
- Flight Behavior
- Sprache
- Englisch
- Autor*innen
- Barbara Kingsolver
- Verlag
- HarperCollins Publishers
- Erscheinungsdatum
- 2013
- Einband
- Paperback
- Seitenzahl
- 436
- ISBN10
- 0062124277
- ISBN13
- 9780062124272
- Reihe
- Schlagwörter
- Belletristik, Natur, Familie, Gegenwartsliteratur, Wissenschaft, Ökologische Thematik, Flucht, Klimawandel, Migration, Schmetterlinge
- Originaltitel
- Flight behaviour
- Bewertung
- 3,8 von 5 Sternen
- Beschreibung
- New York Times Notable Book Washington Post Best Book Of The Year Amazon's Top 100: Editor's Choice Usa Today Best Book Of The Year Dellarobia Turnbow 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 seeks momentary escape through an obsessive flirtation with a younger man. She hikes up a mountain road behind her house toward a secret tryst, but instead encounters a shocking sight: a silent, forested valley filled with what looks 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 toward truth that could undo all she has ever believed.