Pilgrim at Tinker Creek - Brossura

Dillard, Annie

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ISBN 10: 0062564668 ISBN 13: 9780062564665

Casa editrice: Perennial, 2016

Riassunto

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the remarkable year one woman spent in Virginia’s Roanoke Valley—now available in a limited Olive Edition.

“A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.”—Time

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."

Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. 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. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.

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Recensione:

“This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of this or any season...A triumph.” (Publishers Weekly)

“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)

“One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today.” (Boston Globe)

“A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.” (Time magazine)

L'autore:

Annie Dillard has written twelve books,including in nonfiction For the Time Being, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.

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• Editore: Perennial
• Data di pubblicazione: 2016
• ISBN 10: 0062564668
• ISBN 13: 9780062564665
• Rilegatura: Copertina flessibile
• Numero di pagine: 326