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In the Kingdom of Men (Knopf) is the mesmerizing, richly imagined novel from award-winning author Kim Barnes. It's 1967 and Gin Mitchell knows a better life awaits her after she marries hometown hero Mason McPhee. When he takes a job with the Arabian American Oil company in Saudi Arabia, Gin steps into a luxurious world far from the two-room Oklahoma shack she grew up in. But when a young Bedouin woman is found dead, washed up on the shores of the Persian Gulf, Gin's world closes in around her, and the one person she trusts is nowhere to be found.
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father – a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian faith – she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. She had no skills and no funds, but she had the courage and psychological sturdiness to make her way, and to eventually survive the influence of a man whose dominance was of a different and more menacing sort. Hungry for the World is a classic story of the search for knowledge and its consequences, both dire and beautiful.
Review:
"Whether she is recreating the drama of her struggles or conjuring the Idaho wilderness in lyrical passages, Barnes writes beautifully." Publishers Weekly
Review:
"...beautifully written...[Barnes describes] her ordeal powerfully." Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times
Review:
"A work that's a powerful cross – part Loretta Lynn, part Thomas Wolfe. Kim Barnes is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who has won and will win many writing awards. In this breakout memoir...Barnes displays more expertise with hunting and guns than Hemingway, and more knowledge of sylvan botany and zoology than Thoreau. The lyrical cadence of her description is what truly elevates the memoir to literature...At its best, Barnes has given American literature its first cowgirl classic." Kirkus Reviews
Review:
"It is refreshing to read such a moving story of human regeneration." Fort Worth Star Telegram
Synopsis:
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father–a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian faith–she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. She had no skills and no funds, but she had the courage and psychological sturdiness to make her way, and to eventually survive the influence of a man whose dominance was of a different and more menacing sort. Hungry for the World is a classic story of the search for knowledge and its consequences, both dire and beautiful.
Kim Barnes is the author of the novel Finding Caruso and two memoirs, In the Wilderness: Coming of Age in Unknown Countrya finalist for the 1997 Pulitzer Prizeand Hungry for the World. She is coeditor with Mary Clearman Blew of Circle of Women: An Anthology of Contemporary Western Women Writers, and with Claire Davis of Kiss Tomorrow Hello: Notes from the Midlife Underground by Twenty-Five Women Over Forty. Her essays, stories, and poems have appeared in a number of journals and anthologies, including The Georgia Review, Shenandoah, MORE magazine, and the Pushcart Prize Anthology. She teaches writing at the University of Idaho and lives with her husband, the poet Robert Wrigley, on Moscow Mountain.
"Review"
by Publishers Weekly,
"Whether she is recreating the drama of her struggles or conjuring the Idaho wilderness in lyrical passages, Barnes writes beautifully."
"Review"
by Christopher Lehmann-Haupt, The New York Times,
"...beautifully written...[Barnes describes] her ordeal powerfully."
"Review"
by Kirkus Reviews,
"A work that's a powerful cross – part Loretta Lynn, part Thomas Wolfe. Kim Barnes is a Pulitzer Prize finalist who has won and will win many writing awards. In this breakout memoir...Barnes displays more expertise with hunting and guns than Hemingway, and more knowledge of sylvan botany and zoology than Thoreau. The lyrical cadence of her description is what truly elevates the memoir to literature...At its best, Barnes has given American literature its first cowgirl classic."
"Review"
by Fort Worth Star Telegram,
"It is refreshing to read such a moving story of human regeneration."
"Synopsis"
by Random House,
From the author of the critically acclaimed In the Wilderness, comes a riveting new narrative of self-discovery and personal triumph. Hungry for the World is the story of how an intelligent and passionate young woman, yearning for an understanding of the world beyond her insular family life, found her way.
On the day of her 1976 high school graduation in Lewiston, Idaho, Kim Barnes decided she could no longer abide the patriarchal domination of family and church. After a disagreement with her father–a logger and fervent adherent to the Pentecostal Christian faith–she gathered her few belongings and struck out on her own. She had no skills and no funds, but she had the courage and psychological sturdiness to make her way, and to eventually survive the influence of a man whose dominance was of a different and more menacing sort. Hungry for the World is a classic story of the search for knowledge and its consequences, both dire and beautiful.
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