Pigs in Heaven - Barbara Kingsolver [155]
—Detroit News
“A crackerjack storyteller…Kingsolver has a way with miracles. One is the way she opens her plot to them. The other is the way she makes us believe.”
—Newsday
“Immensely readable, warmhearted…brim[ming] with down-home wisdom and endearing characters.”
—Boston Globe
BOOKS BY BARBARA KINGSOLVER
Fiction
Prodigal Summer
The Poisonwood Bible
Pigs in Heaven
Animal Dreams
Homeland and Other Stories
The Bean Trees
Essays
Small Wonder
High Tide in Tucson
Poetry
Another America
Nonfiction
Holding the Line: Women in the Great Arizona Mine Strike of 1983
Copyright
Grateful acknowledgment is made for permission to reprint the following song lyrics:
From “Big Boys,” by Barbara Kingsolver and Spencer Gorin, copyright © 1989.
From “Falling for Me,” by Barbara Kingsolver Spencer Gorin, copyright © 1992.
PIGS IN HEAVEN. Copyright © 1993 by Barbara Kingsolver. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the non-exclusive, non-transferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, down-loaded, decompiled, reverse engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereinafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.
Adobe Digital Edition June 2009 ISBN 978-0-06-184221-4
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Table of Contents
Cover
Title Page
Dedication
Contents
Spring
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Summer
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Fall
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Acknowledgments
About the Author
Praise
Other Books by Barbara Kingsolver
Copyright
About the Publisher