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| Original Title: | Animal Dreams |
| ISBN: | 0060921145 (ISBN13: 9780060921149) |
| Edition Language: | English |
| Characters: | Cosima "Codi" Noline, Homer Noline, Halimeda "Hallie" Noline, Emelina Domingo, Loyd Peregrina, J.T. Domingo |
| Setting: | Grace, Arizona(United States) |
Barbara Kingsolver
Paperback | Pages: 342 pages Rating: 4.06 | 59715 Users | 2332 Reviews
Details Containing Books Animal Dreams
| Title | : | Animal Dreams |
| Author | : | Barbara Kingsolver |
| Book Format | : | Paperback |
| Book Edition | : | First Edition |
| Pages | : | Pages: 342 pages |
| Published | : | 1991 by Harper Perennial (first published September 1st 1990) |
| Categories | : | Fiction. Contemporary. Literary Fiction |
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"Animals dream about the things they do in the day time just like people do. If you want sweet dreams, you've got to live a sweet life." So says Loyd Peregrina, a handsome Apache trainman and latter-day philosopher. But when Codi Noline returns to her hometown, Loyd's advice is painfully out of her reach. Dreamless and at the end of her rope, Codi comes back to Grace, Arizona to confront her past and face her ailing, distant father. What she finds is a town threatened by a silent environmental catastrophe, some startling clues to her own identity, and a man whose view of the world could change the course of her life. Blending flashbacks, dreams, and Native American legends, Animal Dreams is a suspenseful love story and a moving exploration of life's largest commitments. With this work, the acclaimed author of The Bean Trees and Homeland and Other Stories sustains her familiar voice while giving readers her most remarkable book yet.Rating Containing Books Animal Dreams
Ratings: 4.06 From 59715 Users | 2332 ReviewsNotice Containing Books Animal Dreams
In a letter to Codi, Hallie writes, "'What keeps you going isn't some fine destination but just the road you're on, and the fact that you know how to drive.'" This is not a love story as the back of the book may have you believe. Sure, people fall in and out of love within its pages, but this book is really about understanding oneself amid a lifetime of memories and secrets...the risks we take not only when we cheat ourselves, but when we find ourselves, too. I read this for the first time twoThe book was interesting light reading, easy to read; not very demanding. Overall, however, I found it disappointing.An essential quality of a novel is its ability to take us into the consciousness of another person. In that respect Kingsolver succeeds. Codi is a feminine, anti-hero. Kingsolver takes us into all of Codi's doubts and misgivings. We experience the broken and the whole moments of her life. Unfortunately there are unexplored and incomplete elements in Codi's life that are not fully
An all-around good book. A little heartbreak, a little hope, a little humor, and none of it overdone. Easy to read, but by no means brain candy. There are some very valuable observations woven into the story, nicely understated. Codi's little journey reminds us that the way we remember things may have nothing to do with actual events, and that little things we do for others and for the earth can be important for both the doer and the "doee." The main character is a tall female like me, and I
Picked this one up for next to nothing at a garage sale in September along with Sol Yurik's "The Warriors" and S.E. Hinton's "The Outsiders". The pretty woman in her early 40's refused to sell it to me, instead wanting me to take it for free. I insisted and gave her a buck for all three. She lives in a tiny little pink and turquoise casita around the corner and up the street from my flat which I have always lovingly admired. Now having read the book I feel like there was some sort of "Never
This is far and away my favorite book. Yes, asking an avid reader to choose a favorite is like asking a parent to choose a favorite child, I know. But this book. This is the book that made me start re-reading things. This is the book that feels like it was written about my life. This book combines so many things - familial relationships and how we navigate them as we age, losing loved ones, suffering in private, moving back home as an adult, fears of all shapes and sizes, romantic relationships,
My memory, like Codi's, is for shit. I have very few memories -- from childhood through this week -- that aren't factually suspect, and thus justifiably subject to correction by others. This is either sad or liberating, depending on my mood and motivation, and provides both impetus for and against the writing down of Real Life. Sometimes the only proof I want is the emotional residue. But sometimes that, too, is inaccurate -- like the blinding "pop" in Codi's recurring dream, even the
Entertaining read. I just wish they environmental justice aspect was explored more-i felt like it was a cheap plot device and could have been delved into more. The connection between dreams and Alzheimers disease was interesting.
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