The Poisonwood Bible [electronic resource]
Kingsolver, Barbara2008
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Main title:
The Poisonwood Bible [electronic resource] / Barbara Kingsolver
Author:
Kingsolver, Barbara, Author
Imprint:
[Place of publication not identified] : Faber & Faber, 2008
Collation:
1 online resource (1 text file)
Audience:
Reading grade level: 5-6
System details:
Mode of access: Internet
Biography/History:
Barbara Kingsolver's fourteen books of fiction, poetry and non-fiction include the novels the international bestseller The Poisonwood Bible, which is now considered a modern classic and was chosen as the best reading group novel ever at the Penguin/Orange Awards, and The Lacuna, which won the Orange Prize for Fiction in 2010. Her latest novel is Flight Behaviour.
ISBN:
9780571246212
Language:
English
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BRN:
2786465
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