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Title: LacunaThe
Publication Year: 2009Subject: FICTION, Fiction & Literature
Length: UnabridgedTopic: Politics, Conflicts & Dualities, General, Society & Social Issues, Literary Genres & Types of Novels, Peoples & Cultures, Historical Fiction, Historical Personages
Language: EnglishAuthor: Barbara Kingsolver
ISBN-10: 0060853565Format: Audio
ISBN-13: 9780060853563Publisher: Harperaudio

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After several works of non-fiction and poetry, Barbara Kingsolver (THE POISONWOOD BIBLE) returns from a nine-year hiatus to the novel form with THE LACUNA, a tale of cultural and political displacement in the first half of the 20th century. Harrison Shepherd is the son of an American father and a Mexican mother, who grows up in Mexico as a housekeeper in the famous artist household of Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo. His exposure to the politics of Leon Trotsky turns him into a committed leftist--views that come back to haunt him when he moves back to the United States in the aftermath of World War II and must face the paranoia and witch-hunting of the McCarthy era. Kingsolver has crafted a rich and layered story, full of powerful political sentiment, that vividly evokes the tension and hopes of the Americas. Selected by the New York Times Book Review as a Notable Book of 2009 and winner of the 2010 Orange Prize for Fiction.

Key Details
Author:Barbara Kingsolver
Language:English
Publisher:Harperaudio
Format:Audio
ISBN-10:0060853565
ISBN-13:9780060853563

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Narrated by:Barbara Kingsolver
Edition Description:Unabridged

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Thickness:2.2 in
Weight:16 oz

Publisher's Note
Harrison William Shepherd, a highly observant writer, is caught between two worlds--in Mexico, working for communists Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, and later in America, where he his caught up in the patriotism of World War II--in a gripping story about identity and the power of words by the best-selling author of The Poisonwood Bible. Read by the author. Simultaneous.

Harrison William Shepherd, a highly observant writer, is caught between two worlds--in Mexico, working for communists Diego Rivera, Frida Kahlo and Leon Trotsky, and later in America, where he is caught up in the patriotism of World War II.

Industry Reviews
"A lavishly gifted writer, Kingsolver has not let success breed complacency. This novel, her first in nine years, feels prodigiously researched. Its confident pacing mines roughly a quarter-century in two countries, landing the hero in the midst of events that cast long shadows toward our own time....[Though she] resorts to lengthy expository dialogue....[w]hat saves these pages from pure artificiality is Kingsolver's wonderful ear for the quirks of human repartee. THE LACUNA is richly spiked with period language."
(11/02/2009)

"THE LACUNA....is a novel worth waiting a decade for....Page after page of this novel tingles with obliquely witty yet deadly serious conversation that is a joy to read....I was both smiling and crying when I reached THE LACUNA's subtle, tragicomic conclusion--moved, in part, simply by Kingsolver's vast imaginative achievement, spanning several decades of Mexican and American history."
(11/01/2009)

"As with all of [Kingsolver's] books, it's lyrical and vivid, meticulously reported and innovatively structured."

"[B]reathtaking....THE LACUNA can be enjoyed sheerly for the music of its passages on nature, archaeology, food and friendship; or for its portraits of real and invented people; or for its harmonious choir of voices. But the fuller value of Kingsolver's novel lies in its call to conscience and connection."
(11/08/2009)

"Barbara Kingsolver's...novel, THE LACUNA, is the most mature and ambitious one she's written during her celebrated 20-year career, but it's also her most demanding....[The] central, though oddly faint, character is Harrison Shepherd, a popular writer of romantic adventure novels. Kingsolver neatly weaves this quiet, watchful man through tumultuous events that rocked two countries, and one of the most impressive feats of THE LACUNA is how convincingly she tracks his developing voice..."
(11/05/2009)

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From the Mexico City of Frida Kahlo to the America of J. Edgar Hoover, "The Lacuna" tells the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations.

Born in the United States, but reared in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd finds precarious shelter but no sense of home on his thrilling odyssey. Life is whatever he learns from housekeepers and, one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed muralist Diego Rivera. When he goes to work for Rivera, his wife, exotic artist Kahlo, and exiled leader Lev Trotsky, Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution.

Meanwhile, the United States has embraced the internationalist goodwill of World War II. Back in the land of his birth, Shepherd seeks to remake himself in America''s hopeful image and claim a voice of his own. But political winds continue to toss him between north and south in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach--the lacuna--between truth and public presumption.

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