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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
by Annie Dillard
ISBN: 0844669865
ISBN-13: 9780844669861
Format: Hardcover
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Summary
The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by nature-writer Annie Dillard. Living alone on Tinker Creek in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, Dillard follows the progression of seasons and explores the cosmic significance of the beauty and violence coexisting in the natural world.
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"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing....A reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled....There is an ambition about her book that I like....It is the ambition to feel....[But] I honestly do not know what she is talking about at...times." -- Eudora Welty
-- New York Times Book Review
Bibliographic Details
Publisher: Peter Smith Pub Inc
Published date: 1999
Size: 5.5 x 8.25 inches
Weight: 0.85 pounds
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