Homeland And Other Stories
Format: paperback
ISBN:
9780571179572 (0571179576)
Publish date: January 10th 2000
Publisher: Faber and Faber
Pages no: 256
Edition language: English
Category:
Writing,
Essays,
Literature,
Book Club,
Adult Fiction,
American,
Literary Fiction,
Anthologies,
Adult,
Contemporary,
Short Stories
Kingsolver's short stories are rich and diverse. Very enjoyable.
Good stories, very domestic though. I wish she would have branched out a little in several of the settings.
I don't often read short stories, but a colleague lent this to me, and I'm so glad he did. It's beautifully written, and I will definitely go on to try Kingsolver's novels.This is a collection of a dozen poignant stories: all quite different in plot, style, and setting (though all are in small, non-...
The stand out piece of the collection was the title story, Homeland. Gloria's Great-Grandmother is dying and her parents become convinced that Great Mam would like nothing more than to visit Cherokee as she is a Native American who once belonged to the Bird Clan. But when they get there, the comme...
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