![]() ![]() These previous works, however, also grappled with social injustice, with the intersection of public events with private concerns and the competing claims of community and individual will - some of the very themes that animate the saga of Kingsolver's earlier work ("The Bean Trees," "Pigs in Heaven," "Animal Dreams," "Homeland and Other Stories"),įiction set for the most part in the American South and Southwest and dealing, most memorably, with the plight of single mothers trying to sort out their lives. On the surface, certainly, "Poisonwood" might seem to have little in common with Ms. The novel's central character, a fiery evangelical missionary named Nathan Price, is part Roger Chillingworth, the coldhearted, judgmental villain of Hawthorne's "Scarlet Letter," and part Ahab, Melville's monomaniacalĬaptain who risks his own life and the lives of those closest to him in pursuit of his obsessive vision. Powerful new book is actually an old-fashioned 19th-century novel, a Hawthornian tale of sin and redemption, and the "dark necessity" of history. Lthough "The Poisonwood Bible" takes place in the former Belgian Congo and begins in 1959 and ends in the 1990s, Barbara Kingsolver's OctoBOOKS OF THE TIMES 'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness By MICHIKO KAKUTANI ![]() ![]() 'The Poisonwood Bible': A Family a Heart of Darkness ![]()
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