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Lacuna by Barbara Kingsolver (Hardcover)
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Immerse yourself in the world of Lacuna, a captivating work of fiction by the renowned author Barbara Kingsolver. This hardcover book, measuring 1.5 inches in height, 9.4 inches in length, and 6.5 inches in width, features 507 pages that will transport you to a different time and place. Explore the literary, biographical, and historical themes of this book, published by HarperCollins and written in English. With its rich language and compelling characters, Lacuna is a must-read for anyone interested in expanding their knowledge and imagination. Add this book to your collection today and experience the magic of Barbara Kingsolver's words.
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Product Identifiers
PublisherHarperCollins
ISBN-101554684757
ISBN-139781554684755
eBay Product ID (ePID)143614724
Product Key Features
Book TitleLacuna
Number of Pages507 Pages
LanguageEnglish
TopicLiterary, Biographical, Historical
GenreFiction
AuthorBarbara Kingsolver
FormatHardcover
Dimensions
Item Height1.5 in
Item Weight28.9 Oz
Item Length9.4 in
Item Width6.5 in
Additional Product Features
LCCN2009-033697
Dewey Edition22
TitleLeadingThe
Dewey Decimal813/.54
SynopsisBorn in the United States, reared in a series of provisional households in Mexico, Harrison Shepherd is mostly a liability to his social-climbing flapper mother, Salomé. From a coastal island jungle to the unpaved neighborhoods of 1930s Mexico City, through a disastrous stint at a military school in Virginia and back again, his fortunes never steady as Salomé finds her rich men-friends always on the losing side of the Mexican Revolution. Sometimes she gives her son cigarettes instead of supper. He aims for invisibility, observing his world and recording everything with a peculiar selfless irony in his notebooks. Life is whatever he learns from servants putting him to work in the kitchen, errands he runs in the streets, and one fateful day, by mixing plaster for famed Mexican muralist Diego Rivera. Making himself useful in the household of Rivera, his wife Frida Kahlo and exiled Bolshevik leader Lev Trotsky, young Shepherd inadvertently casts his lot with art and revolution, and the howling gossip and reportage that dictate public opinion. A violent upheaval sends him north to a nation newly caught up in the internationalist good will of World War II. In the mountain city of Asheville, North Carolina, he remakes himself in America's hopeful image. Under the watch of his peerless stenographer, Violet Brown, he finds an extraordinary use for his talents of observation. But political winds continue to throw him between north and south, in a plot that turns many times on the unspeakable breach--the lacuna--between truth and public presumption. This is a gripping story of identity, connection with our past, and the power of words to create or devastate, unfolding at a moment when the entire world seemed bent on reinventing itself at any cost., In this powerfully imagined, provocative novel, Barbara Kingsolver takes us on an epic journey from the Mexico of artists Diego Rivera and Frida Kahlo to the America of Pearl Harbor, FDR, and J. Edgar Hoover. "The Lacuna" is the poignant story of a man pulled between two nations as well as an unforgettable portrait of the artist--and of art itself.
LC Classification NumberPS3561.I496L33 2009
