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Amazon.com: Unsheltered: A Novel: 9780062684561: Kingsolver, Barbara: Books
New York: Harper, 2018. SIGNED. 1st/1st. Purchased New. NF/F. Stated First Edition. First printing with complete 10 number line ending in 1. Signed by Barbara Kingsolver on the title page. The unread book has sharp tips and clean unmarred boards. Spine tail gently pushed. The textblock is clean with no writing, bookplate, or markings and not BCE, ex-library, or remaindered. Bound-in "Dear Reader" page in this special edition sold only at independent bookstores with the same 9780062684561 ISBN as published First Editions. The dust jacket is unclipped ($29.99) and Fine. "With an exclusive letter from Barbara Kingsolver" removable label on the front panel. Protected in a new Brodart Mylar cover. "Unsheltered" is the story of two families, in two centuries, who live at the corner of Sixth and Plum, as they navigate the challenges of surviving a world in the throes of major cultural shifts. In this mesmerizing story told in alternating chapters, Willa and Thatcher come to realize that though the future is uncertain, even unnerving, shelter can be found in the bonds of kindred—whether family or friends—and in the strength of the human spirit. How could two hardworking people do everything right in life, a woman asks, and end up destitute? Willa Knox and her husband followed all the rules as responsible parents and professionals, and have nothing to show for it but debts and an inherited brick house that is falling apart. The magazine where Willa worked has folded; the college where her husband had tenure has closed. Their dubious shelter is also the only option for a disabled father-in-law and an exasperating, free-spirited daughter. When the family's one success story, an Ivy-educated son, is uprooted by tragedy he seems likely to join them, with dark complications of his own. In another time, a troubled husband and public servant asks, How can a man tell the truth, and be reviled for it? A science teacher with a passion for honest investigation, Thatcher Greenwood finds himself under siege: his employer forbids him to speak of the exciting work just published by Charles Darwin. His young bride and social-climbing mother-in-law bristle at the risk of scandal, and dismiss his worries that their elegant house is unsound. In a village ostensibly founded as a benevolent Utopia, Thatcher wants only to honor his duties, but his friendships with a woman scientist and a renegade newspaper editor threaten to draw him into a vendetta with the town's powerful men. CHECK OUT OUR OTHER LISTINGS AT https://www.etsy.com/shop/ArmadilloAlleyBooks
When Barbara Kingsolver starts writing a novel, she identifies an intriguing, vital question, one without a clear answer. What question, it seems natural to ask, did she ponder for her latest novel? Her response is somewhat startling.
A crumbling house is a solid foundation for this striking, time-shifting tale of a nation adrift
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