From the acclaimed Barbara Kingsolver, winner of the Pulitzer Prize and twice winner of the Women’s Prize for Fiction
‘Animals dream about the things they do in the daytime 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.
‘A rich, compassionate book’ Alice Hoffman
‘Rich, complex, witty… This one will be with us for a long time’ Washington Post
‘An emotional masterpiece’ New York Daily News
‘A novel that feels closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I’ve read in a long time’ Cosmopolitan
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Reviews
Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect . . . [It] leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope
Kingsolver probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom. Animal Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal
Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time . . . An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers
A rich, compassionate book filled with the personal horrors and the hope and magic of everyday life
Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it
Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind
Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent... Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book
Kingsolver achieves a fully realized and profoundly moral vision, one that is rooted in the land and our relationship to it
Barbara Kingsolver demonstrates a special gift for the vivid evocation of landscape and of her characters' state of mind
Kingsolver is a writer of rare ambition and unequivocal talent... Animal Dreams is a complex, passionate, bravely challenging book
Kingsolver probes the human heart with uncommon wisdom. Animal Dreams is a gracefully written, large-spirited novel. Anchored on the earth, it dares to soar into the ethereal
A rich, compassionate book
Rich, complex, witty... This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time
A novel full of aching sadness - as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing
A rich, compassionate book filled with the personal horrors and the hope and magic of everyday life
If you enjoy prose, you'll treasure ANIMAL DREAMS. A beautiful, memorable novel full of scenes and images that linger in the mind
A novel full of aching sadness - as well as joy, humor, insight and wonderful writing
Rich, complex, witty... This is a sweet book, full of bitter pain; a beautiful weaving of the light and the dark. This one will be with us for a long time
An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul
Animal Dreams is a novel that feel closer to the truth about modern lives than anything I've read in a long time . . . An astonishing book that ought to put Barbara Kingsolver in the first ranks of fiction writers
A glorious tapestry . . . Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams
ANIMAL DREAMS is one of those rare novels I could not put down and left me wondering whether to go back to the beginning or simply anticipate the next product from this woman's pen
A glorious tapestry . . . Animal Dreams is rich fodder for our own sweet, satisfying dreams
An emotional masterpiece . . . A novel in which humor, passion, and superb prose conspire to seize a reader by the heart and by the soul
Animal Dreams literally bursts with life. Its description of how one woman finds her way back from the edge of despair seems absolutely perfect . . . [It] leaves the reader filled with wonder and hope