| The Annie Dillard Reader Contributor(s): Dillard, Annie (Author) |
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ISBN: 0060926600 ISBN-13: 9780060926601 Publisher: Harper Perennial OUR PRICE: $16.14 Product Type: Paperback - Other Formats Published: September 1995 Annotation: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has gathered together her favorite passages from past works to create an anthology consisting of her most significant, most passionate, most evocative writings. Selections include excerpts from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, The Living, An American Childhood, and Teaching a Stone To Talk. |
| Additional Information |
| BISAC Categories: - Fiction | Literary - Fiction | Anthologies (multiple Authors) - Fiction | Coming Of Age |
| Dewey: FIC |
| LCCN: 94019482 |
| Physical Information: 1.08" H x 5.2" W x 8.18" (0.76 lbs) 464 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace. - The New Yorker A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great writers, she is fresh, jarring, passionately dedicated to her subject. -- Threepenny Review From one of America's most beloved writers, a collection of her own work - from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and The Living - now in paperback. A lovely introduction to the prolific Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning oeuvre, this sampler demonstrates Dillard's wide breadth of writing from the most minute observations to profound meditations on God in everyday life. |
Contributor Bio(s): Dillard, Annie: - Annie Dillard has written twelve books, including in nonfiction For the Time Being, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences. |