Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

ISBN: 0553233890
ISBN-13: 9780553233896
Format: Paperback

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

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Bibliographic Details

Publisher: Bantam Books
Published date: 1982

Other Editions

Paperback Reissue - Harpercollins (1988) - from $1.00
Hardcover - Buccaneer Books (1998) - from $35.11

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