01266cam a2200265 4500 43628695 TxAuBib 20000628120000.0 160209s1998||||||||||||||||||||||||und|u 9780060175405 0060175400 TxAuBib Kingsolver, Barbara. The poisonwood Bible / Barbara Kingsolver. 1st ed. New York : HarperFlamingo, 1998. x, 546 p ; 25 cm. Includes bibliographical references (p. 545-546). Barbara Kingsolver's The Poisonwood Bible paints an intimate portrait of a crisis-ridden family amid the larger backdrop of an African nation in chaos. Critics and readers alike have acclaimed the novel as the greatest achievement of one of America's foremost living authors. Missionaries Congo (Democratic Republic) Fiction. Family Congo (Democratic Republic) Fiction. Congo (Democratic Republic) History 1960- Fiction. Domestic fiction. Historical fiction.