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Barbara Kingsolver - Flight Behavior --- at Washington National Cathedral
Nov 8 2012 7:30 pm
Nov 8 2012 8:30 pm
at Washington National Cathedral
3101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
Metro: Cleveland Park
Barbara Kingsolver
Washington National Cathedral, in partnership with Politics & Prose, announces an evening with one of America’s most perceptive novelists, Barbara Kingsolver. The evening will be her first public presentation following the publication of her fourteenth novel, Flight Behavior (Harper, $28.99). Set in rural Appalachia, Kingsolver’s novel centers on a mysterious fire. What different characters make of this silently burning valley says as much about the individual farmers, biologists, and curiosity-seekers as it does about the state of the planet. For Dellarobia, a young woman chafing at her constrained circumstances, this lake of fire is at once a warning and an opportunity.
Author, environmental activist and human-rights advocate Barbara Kingsolver has held many jobs, from archaeologist to x-ray technician, but she has always been a storyteller. “I used to beg my mother to let me tell her a bedtime story,” she says. Her works include Prodigal Summer, Poisonwood Bible, and Small Wonder.
Tickets are $15; $10 for students and P&P members.
Books will be sold on-site by Politics & Prose.
Click here to purchase tickets.
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- Street:
- Washington National Cathedral
- Additional:
- 3101 Wisconsin Avenue, NW
- City:
- Washington ,
- Province:
- District Of Columbia
- Postal Code:
- 20016
- Country:
- United States
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