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Book SynopsisFrom the acclaimed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women''s Prize for Fiction
At the end of her rope, Codi Noline returns to her Arizona home to face her ailing father, with whom she has a difficult, distant relationship. There she meets handsome Apache trainman Loyd Peregrina, who tells her, ''If you want sweet dreams, you''ve got to live a sweet life''. Filled with lyrical writing, Native American legends, a tender love story, and Codi''s quest for identity, Animal Dreams is literary fiction at its very best.
''A rich, compassionate book'' Alice Hoffman
''Rich, complex, witty... This one will be with us for a long time'' Washington Post
''An emotional masterpiece'' New York Daily News
''A novel that feels closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I''ve read in a long time'' Cosmopolitan
Trade ReviewA rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman *
Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind * New York Times Book Review *
Rich, complex, witty...This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time * Washington Post *
An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers * Cosmopolitan *
Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent...
Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book * Chicago Tribune *
A rich, compassionate book * Alice Hoffman *
If you enjoy prose, you'll treasure ANIMAL DREAMS. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind * Tony Hillerman *
ANIMAL DREAMS is one of those rare novels I could not put down and left me wondering whether to go back to the beginning or simply anticipate the next product from this woman's pen * LOS ANGELES TIMES *
