The Annie Dillard Reader |
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Author:
| Dillard, Annie |
ISBN: | 978-0-06-092660-1 |
Publication Date: | Sep 1995 |
Publisher: | HarperCollins Publishers
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Imprint: | Harper Perennial |
Book Format: | Paperback |
List Price: | USD $18.99 |
Book Description:
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"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.
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More 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.