Description: Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard has gathered together her favorite passages from past works to create an anthology consisting of her most significant, most passionate, most evocative writings. Selections include excerpts from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Holy the Firm, The Living, An American Childhood, and Teaching a Stone To Talk.
Brief description:
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.
Review Quotes:
"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