![]() like currency from another time,'' it is apt to affect certain sections of the book-buying populace the way flower beds affect bees. When a book is full of songbirds and flowers, wild creatures and homespun wonders, with strong, smart heroines dispensing information more commonly found in field guides and the scenery given to ''green, manure-drunk orchard grass'' and ''jars of golden peaches lined up on the counter. ![]() ''Or should be trying to, if they're not already.''Īlong the way the author happens to provide an object lesson on laws of literary survival. ''Why plant more tobacco when everybody's trying to quit smoking?'' asks one of the book's farm-dwelling, ardently opinionated characters. Kingsolver means to illustrate the nature of biological destiny and provide enlightened discourse on various ecological matters. In an improbably appealing book with the feeling of a nice stay inside a terrarium, Ms. ![]() ![]() Pillow talk, in a cosily secluded mountain cabin where ''there was no better dawn chorus anywhere on earth,'' concerns the fates of the American chestnut, the lynx and the coyote, culminating in a lovers' quarrel about the importance of predators in the food chain. A romantic interlude in Barbara Kingsolver's vibrant new novel involves two mating humans plus a moth laying eggs, a hunting phoebe and a couple of mice. ![]()
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