Contemporary American female writers

[David Casseres]

I'm also a fan of The Poisonwood Bible, and I also like Prodigal Summer.

As for Kingsolver "wearing her politics on her book-jacket," count me
as one who thinks Pynchon does too, and more power to both of them.
In truth, a great many novelists do this, but it goes without notice
because their politics aren't interesting.

On 10/7/06, bekah <bekah0176 at sbcglobal.net> wrote:
> At 8:18 PM -0700 10/7/06, pynchonoid wrote:
> >Barbara Kingsolver has been moderately
> >>  good in the past
> >>  but she wears her politics on her book-jacket.
> >
> >
> >I parts of The Poisonwood Bible a lot, and can see why
> >it was such a big bestseller.
>
>
> The Poisonwood Bible is by far Kingsolver's best work to date.   Her
> politics is there (and I tend to mostly agree with her politics),
> but the structure, the voices, the themes and the style just carry
> that one beyond whatever else she's done.   She's not my favorite
> author and TPB is not a "great"  book,  but I have to give credit
> where it's due.
>
> Bekah
>