Author: Annie Dillard
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Memoirs, Essays, Non Fiction
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9780062432964
9780062433015
0062432966
0062433016 |
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In recognition of this Pulitzer prize-winning author's lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work the abundance includes the best of Annie Dillard's essays, delivered in her fierce and muscular prose, filled with absorbing detail and metaphysical fact. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life - a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through backyards, a bookish teenager memorizes the poetry of Rimbaud - with beauty and irony. These essays invite readers into sweeping landscapes, to join Dillard in exploring the complexities of time and death, often with wry humor. On one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar.
Marking the vigor of this powerful writer, The Abundance highlights Annie Dillard's elegance of mind.
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