The Lacuna : Orange Prize WINNER

http://www.orangeprize.co.uk/show/feature/orange-2010-winner -see Orange Prize site for details, video, etc.

Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner - see the article and others--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2010/jun/10/barbara-kingsolver-orange-prize?utm_source=feedburner&utm_medium=feed&utm_campaign=Feed%3A+theguardian%2Fbooks%2Frss+%28Books%29

Barbara Kingsolver: from witch hunt to winner

This week's Orange prize winner talks to Kira Cochrane about communism, Frida Kahlo – and the hate mail she received after 9/1

• • guardian.co.uk, Thursday 10 June 2010 18.36 BST

Barbara Kingsolver…'I took the bile and made something beautiful.' Photograph: Felix Clay for the Guardian

It was the winter of 2001, and the popular novelist Barbara Kingsolver was facing a deluge of hate mail. In the wake of the 9/11 attacks she had written a series of opinion pieces for US newspapers, urging contemplation and debate, and her ideas (the suggestion, for instance, that "in critical times, our leaders need most to be influenced by the moderating force of dissent") were proving seriously unpopular. see whole article

The Lacuna, her first novel for 10 years, takes in the Mexican revolution, the exile of Trotsky in Mexico City, the First World War and the communist witch-hunts in 1950s America. It is an admirably ambitious work spanning a fascinating period of history see more--
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2009/nov/08/the-lacuna-barbara-kingsolver

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Main Title: The lacuna : a novel / by Barbara Kingsolver. Author: Kingsolver, Barbara Edition: 1st ed. Imprint: New York : Harper, 2009. Collation: 507 p. ; 24 cm. Summary: "The story of Harrison William Shepherd, a man caught between two worlds -- Mexico and the United States in the 1930s, '40s, and '50s -- and whose search for identity takes readers to the heart of the twentieth century's most tumultuous events"--Provided by publisher. ISBN: 9780060852573 (hardback) 9780571252640 (pbk) Dewey Class: 813.54 LC Class: PS3561.I496 Language: English Subject: Americans -- Mexico -- Fiction Identity (Psychology) -- Fiction Subversive activities -- Fiction Mexico -- History -- 1910-1946 -- Fiction North Carolina -- History -- 20th century -- Fiction Biographical fiction Historical fiction Epistolary fiction Average Rating: No reviews available as yet Add your review BRN: 232238 More Information: More about this book in Google Book Search View more information in LibraryThing - 965 entries, 67 reviews

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SEE Library Things- http://www.librarything.com/work/8415466 for reviews of it by readers and also Goodreads -http://www.goodreads.com/book/show/6433752-the-lacuna


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The Orange Prize for Fiction (known as the Orange Broadband Prize for Fiction from 2007 to 2008) is one of the United Kingdom's most prestigious literary prizes,^[1][2][3] annually awarded to a female author of any nationality for the best original full-length novel written in English, and published in the United Kingdom in the preceding year.
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