The Annie Dillard Reader: Essential Essays on Nature, God, and Everyday Life from the Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author - Couverture souple

Dillard, Annie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 0060926600 ISBN 13 : 9780060926601

Editeur : Harper Perennial, 1995

Synopsis

"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.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

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.

À propos de la quatrième de couverture

Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" (Boston Globe) -- collects her favorite selections from her own writings in this compact volume. A perfect introduction to one of America's most acclaimed and bestselling authors.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Harper Perennial
• Date d'édition: 1995
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 0060926600
• ISBN 13: 9780060926601
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 464
• Coordonnées du fabricant: non disponible
• Personne responsable: HarperCollins Publishers Ireland; enquiries@harpercollins.ie; ; Macken House 39/40 Mayor Street Upper; Dublin; D01 C9W8; Irlande