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A collection of passages selected by the author includes excerpts from the Pulitzer-prize winning "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek," poetry from "Holy the Firm," and recollections from "An American childhood"
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"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace." – The New Yorker"A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great writers, she is fresh, jarring, passionately dedicated to her subject." — Threepenny ReviewFrom one of America's most beloved writers, a collection of her own work - from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and The Living - now in paperback. A lovely introduction to the prolific Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning oeuvre, this sampler demonstrates Dillard's wide breadth of writing from the most minute observations to profound meditations on God in everyday life.
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