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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 814.54 EAN: 9780060927561 ISBN: 0060927569 Label: Harper Perennial Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 288 Publication Date: October 09, 1996 Publisher: Harper Perennial Release Date: August 30, 1996 Studio: Harper Perennial Editorial Review: Product Description: "There is no one quite like Barbara Kingsolver in contemporary literature," raves the Washington Post Book World, and it is right. She has been nominated three times for the ABBY award, and her critically acclaimed writings consistently enjoy spectacular commercial success as they entertain and touch her legions of loyal fans. In High Tide in Tucson, she returnsto her familiar themes of family, community, the common good and the natural world. The title essay considers Buster, a hermit crab that accidentally stows away on Kingsolver's return trip from the Bahamas to her desert home, and turns out to have manic-depressive tendencies. Buster is running around for all he's worth -- one can only presume it's high tide in Tucson. Kingsolver brings a moral vision and refreshing sense of humor to subjects ranging from modern motherhood to the history of private property to the suspended citizenship of human beings in the Animal Kingdom. Beautifully packaged, with original illustrations by well-known illustrator Paul Mirocha, these wise lessons on the urgent business of being alive make it a perfect gift for Kingsolver's many fans. Average Rating:
 Rating:  - High tide everywhereThe title story in this collection is that of a stowaway hermit crab that Kingsolver inadvertently carried from the Bahamas to her home in Tucson in a collection of shells she had collected for her young daughter. As she explains, "If you ask me, when something extraordinary shows up in your life in the middle of the night, you give it a name and make it the best home you can." "Buster's" behavior occasions wide ranging observations (the author's education was as a naturalist), including the desert ... Read More Rating: - All time favouriteThis is my favourite book of all time. I repeatedly go back to chapters to re-read and I have recommended this book to many people over the years. Barbara Kingsolver's writing and way of looking at the world is thought-provoking and fresh. My only complaint, as with all of Kingsolver's books, is that one eventually comes to the end! Rating: - Art to Move Mountains (or Hermit Crab Shells)Kingsolver holds reign neck and neck with Annie Dillard as two of my favorite naturalist writers and essayists. Kingsolver holds her own as a novelist. In this collection of essays, rewritten and expanded versions, in many cases, from what has been previously published in various magazines, Kingsolver's skill and talent as an essayist shimmers with brilliance and sheer entertainment. Even when she is teaching us a lesson and hammering it home. Topics have wide range, covering nature, art, ... Read More Rating: - Best book everI feel sad that at age 69 I discovered this book. I plan to send it to my daugter, daugher-in-law, and my neice who is a new bride. What wonderful insights and fatanstic advice for raising a child and then again, for not having children and living your own life according to your own needs and wants. Fabulous!! Rating:  - Lovely but longSome of the essays in this book are fine examples of Kingsolver's eloquent, thoughtful, and funny writing. I found that the book dragged after a while, however, rehashing the same themes over again in different essays, and sometimes becoming a bit preachy. Although I liked this book, I would tell others to read "Prodigal Summer" instead, which is gorgeous, start to finish. |
