Readers hoping for the emotional intensity and wide-angle vision of The Poisonwood Bible.will most likely be disappointed. Kingsolver means to illustrate the nature of biological destiny and provide enlightened discourse on various ecological matters. In an improbably appealing book with the feeling of a nice stay inside a terrarium, Ms. Pillow talk, in a cosily secluded mountain cabin where ''there was no better dawn chorus anywhere on earth,'' concerns the fates of the American chestnut, the lynx and the coyote, culminating in a lovers' quarrel about the importance of predators in the food chain. A romantic interlude in Barbara Kingsolver's vibrant new novel involves two mating humans plus a moth laying eggs, a hunting phoebe and a couple of mice.
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