Total Eclipse - Couverture souple

Dillard, Annie

Couverture souple

ISBN 10 : 1068591889 ISBN 13 : 9781068591884

Editeur : Silver Press, 2025

Synopsis

What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?

In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning. With lyrical precision and eerie clarity, Dillard unforgettably evokes the strangeness of the shifting sky and the psychic dislocation that descends with the shadow.

The quiet yet epic unravelling of the familiar becomes revelation: a rupture in time, a confrontation with mortality and a brush with the sublime. Juxtaposing the cosmic and the mundane, Total Eclipse meditates on the limits of perception and language, entering the surreal intensity of the phenomenon to emerge with the brief, blazing clarity offered by darkness.

A propos du livre

À propos de l'auteur

Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as An American Childhood, The Living and Mornings Like This. 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. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Dillard attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she lives with her family.

Détails de l'édition

• Éditeur: Silver Press
• Date d'édition: 2025
• Langue: anglais
• ISBN 10: 1068591889
• ISBN 13: 9781068591884
• Reliure: Broché
• Nombre de pages: 32
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