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For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
Category: Poetry
Explores the rich diversities of our world, ranging from a natural history of sand to the rise of Hasidic thought to the eternal questions of God, evil, individuality, and time.
Holy the Firm by Dillard, Annie
Category: Philosophy and Religion
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person. For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a m ...Show more
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Category: General Fiction
The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the remarkable year one woman spent in Virginia s Roanoke Valley now available in a limited Olive Edition. A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration. Time Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets ...Show more
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Category: Science & Natural History
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia r ...Show more
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
Category: Fiction | Series: HarperPerennial Modern Classics Ser.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia re ...Show more
TICKETS FOR A PRAYER WHEEL by DILLARD ANNIE
Category: Poetry | Series: Wesleyan Poetry Ser.
Celebrate re-publication of this Pulitzer Prize-winning author's first book. Best known for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, her Pulitzer Prize-winning narrative on nature and eternity, Annie Dillard writes fiction and nonfiction, as well as poetry, that explore abstract and sensory phenomena, the role of the ...Show more
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
Category: Animals & Nature | Series: Canons
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respect ...Show more
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
Category: Languages and Reference
"A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world."-- "Kirkus Reviews" "A collection of meditations like polished stones--painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet p ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
Category: Languages and Reference | Series: Canons
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking fligh ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
Category: Languages and Reference
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. She conjures currents of magic and wisdom, illuminating the seemingly ordinary moments of a life lived fearlessly - as a breathless teenager, as a roving young adult ...Show more
The Abundance : Narrative Essays Old and New by Geoff (FRW) Annie; Dyer Dillard
Category: Reference
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
Category: Fiction
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, a ...Show more