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Pigs in heaven : a novel / Barbara Kingsolver.
When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.
Record details
- ISBN: 0060168013
- ISBN: 9780060168018
- ISBN: 9780062277763
- ISBN: 0062277766
- Physical Description: 343 pages ; 25 cm
- Edition: First edition.
- Publisher: New York : HarperCollins, ©1993.
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| Awards Note: | Los Angeles Times Book Prize for Fiction, 1993 |
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| Subject: | Orphans > Fiction. Cherokee Indians > Oklahoma > Fiction. |
| Genre: | Romance fiction Domestic fiction. Novels. |
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Summary:
When six-year-old Turtle Greer witnesses a freak accident at the Hoover Dam, her insistence on what she has seen and her mother's belief in her lead to a man's dramatic rescue. But Turtle's moment of celebrity draws her into a conflict of historic proportions. The crisis quickly envelops not only Turtle and her mother, Taylor, but everyone else who touches their lives in a complex web connecting their future with their past.
