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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Perennial Classics)

by Annie Dillard

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ISBN13: 9780060953027
ISBN10: 0060953020
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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.

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"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

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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."

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About the Author

Annie 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.

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jen122, August 21, 2006 (view all comments by jen122)
I think that the title of this book really ties everything that the writer has expressed all come together. If you think about it, a pilgrim is somebody that goes on a journey and the main character is always on a journey to find new things.
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Product Details

ISBN:
9780060953027
Author:
Dillard, Annie
Publisher:
Harper Perennial Modern Classics
Location:
New York :
Subject:
General
Subject:
Fiction
Subject:
Nature
Subject:
Essays
Copyright:
1999
Edition Description:
1st Perennial classics ed.
Series:
Perennial Classics
Publication Date:
19981028
Binding:
Paperback
Language:
English
Illustrations:
Yes
Pages:
304
Dimensions:
8.04x5.36x.70 in. .57 lbs.
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