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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)by Annie Dillard
Synopses & ReviewsPublisher Comments:An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons — a personal narrative highlighting one year's exploration on foot in the author's own neighborhood in Tinker Creek, Virginia. In the summer, Dillard stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays 'King of the Meadow' with a field of grasshoppers. Review:"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."(-- Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review) Synopsis:Join "one of the most distinctive voices in American literature today" ("Boston Globe") on her Pulitzer Prize-winning journey of the mind. Synopsis:Chapter 1. Heaven and Earth in Jest Chapter 2. Seeing Chapter 3. Winter Chapter 4. The Fixed Chapter 5. Untying the Knot Chapter 6. The Present Chapter 7. Spring Chapter 8. Intricacy Chapter 9. Flood Chapter 10. Fecundity Chapter 11. Stalking Chapter 12. Nightwatch Chapter 13. The Horns of the Altar Chapter 14. Northing Chapter 15. The Waters of Separation Synopsis:The Twenty-Fifth Anniversary Edition The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by the author whom The Boston Globe called "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." About the AuthorAnnie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner 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. What Our Readers Are SayingAdd a comment for a chance to win!
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