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The Annie Dillard Reader

Annie Dillard

464 Pages

On-Sale Date: 21/09/1995

ISBN: 9780060926601

Trim Size: 5.300in x 8.000in x 1.700in

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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.

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.

Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.

“One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today.” — Boston Globe

“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