I started and finished A Sense of Direction in one evening; I couldn't really stop thinking about it, so I couldn't put it down. I found it...
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Somehow I missed this when it came out. A couple friends whose tastes in books I generally share quote from it often, so I got myself a copy and was quickly carried away, and the Living became easily the best book I read in 2011. This amazing work captures the human condition, in much the same way that another marvelous epic of the American West, East of Eden, does - by telling the truth of individual people and portraying what is both special and common in each of them, each of us. (And if you have a place in your heart for the Pacific Northwest, plant this seed there and watch it grow to touch the clouds!)
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The Living by Annie Dillard
Alyson, January 1, 2012
Somehow I missed this when it came out. A couple friends whose tastes in books I generally share quote from it often, so I got myself a copy and was quickly carried away, and the Living became easily the best book I read in 2011. This amazing work captures the human condition, in much the same way that another marvelous epic of the American West, East of Eden, does - by telling the truth of individual people and portraying what is both special and common in each of them, each of us. (And if you have a place in your heart for the Pacific Northwest, plant this seed there and watch it grow to touch the clouds!)