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A landmark collection of author-curated pieces celebrates the master essayist's career and offers insight into her establishment of the "novelized nonfiction" form.
In 1975, Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about tim...
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, jus...
Pulitzer Prize-winning writer Annie Dillard presents a series of connected essays that chronicle a year at Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Observant, deeply contemplative, and beautifully written, Pilgrim a...
Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, and Calvino, the author shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more about modern thinking than all the academic sciences comb...
"Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love." -New York Times "In her elegant, sophisticated prose, Dillard tells a tale of intimacy, loss and extraordinary friendship and maturity against a ...
The author tells about growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. She describes the exhilaration of a young girl discovering and exploring the world around her with a growing awareness of nature, friends and boys. 1987.
The author tells about growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s. She describes the exhilaration of a young girl discovering and exploring the world around her with a growing awareness of nature, friends and boys. 1987.
Living alone in Puget Sound, the author is inspired by the beauty and violence of nature. Her creativity and spirituality become interwoven with the elements around her. 1977.
Living alone in Puget Sound, the author is inspired by the beauty and violence of nature. Her creativity and spirituality become interwoven with the elements around her. 1977.