| Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Contributor(s): Dillard, Annie (Author), Gilbert, Tavia |
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ISBN: 143326126X ISBN-13: 9781433261268 Publisher: Blackstone Audiobooks OUR PRICE: $16.96 Product Type: Compact Disc Published: March 2009 * Not available - Not in print at this time *Annotation: Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for Nonfiction. Through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, Annie Dillard brings anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. |
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| BISAC Categories: - Nature | Essays |
| Dewey: 508.975 |
| Physical Information: 1.1" H x 5.2" W x 5.7" (0.55 lbs) 8 pages |
| Descriptions, Reviews, Etc. |
| Publisher Description: "I am no scientist," says Annie Dillard. "I am a wanderer with a background in theology and a penchant for quirky facts." In this classic of literary nonfiction, she takes us through a year of on-foot explorations through her own landscape, bringing anecdotes, curiosities, and insights about all she observes and experiences. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and thinks about wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot, unties a snakeskin, witnesses a flood, and plays "King of the Meadow" with a field of grasshoppers. Throughout her wanderings, Annie Dillard's keen observations, poetic sensibilities, introspective reflections, and reverence for her surroundings show us the world outside as we have never seen it before. |
Contributor Bio(s): Gilbert, Tavia: - Tavia Gilbert, an acclaimed narrator of more than four hundred full-cast and multivoice audiobooks for virtually every publisher in the industry, is an eight-time Audie nominee and the recipient of thirteen Earphones Awards, a Voice Arts Award, and a Listen-Up Award. With frequent inclusion on best of year and annual top ten lists, Tavia is a trusted and increasingly sought-after actress for work across every genre, from children's and YA, to literary fiction, nonfiction, and genre fiction. Audible recently named her a Genre-Defining Narrator: Master of Memoir, and Library Journal said of this highly acclaimed actress, "as close as you can get to a full cast narration with a solo voice." Tavia is a producer, singer, photographer, and a writer, as well as the cofounder of a feminist publishing company, Animal Mineral, with fiction and nonfiction focusing on relationships, love, and identity. Dillard, Annie: -Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and numerous other works of nonfiction, including An American Childhood and For the Time Being. Her novels include The Living and, most recently, The Maytrees. |