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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

The Pulitzer Prize-winning work by the author whom The Boston Globe called "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today."

With color, irony and sensitivity, Pulitzer prize-winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication absurdity, and daring that is the writer's life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters

by Annie Dillard

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

An American Childhood

by Annie Dillard

A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.

The Maytrees: A Novel

by Annie Dillard

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, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems. In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and... (more)

The Living: A Novel

by Annie Dillard

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

Holy the Firm

by Annie Dillard

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 time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism... (more)

Three by Annie Dillard: The Writing Life, An American Childhood, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

by Annie Dillard

A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular books in one volume.

For the Time Being (Vintage)

by Annie Dillard

National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange--. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."-- Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being , her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox,... (more)

Living by Fiction

by Annie Dillard

Living by Fiction is written for--and dedicated to--people who love literature. Dealing with writers such as Nabokov, Barth, Coover, Pynchon, Borges, García Márquez, Beckett, and Calvino, Annie Dillard shows why fiction matters and how it can reveal more of the modern world and modern thinking than all the academic sciences combined. Like Joyce Cary's Art and Reality, this is a book by a writer on the issues... (more)

Encounters With Chinese Writers

by Annie Dillard

Bizarre encounters between Chinese and American writers

Mornings Like This: Found Poems

by Annie Dillard

In Mornings Like This, Annie Dillard extracts and rearranges sentences from old--and often odd--books, and composes ironic poems--some serious, some light--on the heartfelt themes of love, nature, nostalgia, and death. Clever, original, sometimes humorous, and often profound, this collection is sure to charm her fans, both old and new.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing LifeAnnie Dillard

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life

by Annie Dillard

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems (A Breakthrough book)Annie Dillard

Tickets for a Prayer Wheel: Poems (A Breakthrough book)

by Annie Dillard

A stunning poetry collection by the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of whom The New Yorker said, "She has the ability to write with enduring grace." The Boston Globe called her "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today."

The Earth Speaks

by Steve Van Matre

A collection of images and impressions captured by those who have listened to the earth with their hearts --- John Muir, Walt Whitman, Annie Dillard, John Burroughs, Rachel Carson, Aldo Leopold, Henry David Thoreau, and more... The Earth Speaks can be read by individuals in moments of solitude, shared among friends around a trailside campfire, and used by leaders to help their learners develop a love for... (more)

The Seasons of Women: An Anthology

A me+a7lange of contemporary writing by, for, and about women includes memoirs, short stories, and essays by such writers as Gail Godwin, Anne Tyler, Pam Houston, and Terry McMillan, celebrating the special pleasures and spiritual life of women.

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

Sisters of the Earth: Women's Prose and Poetry About Nature

by Lorraine Anderson

Sisters of the Earth is a stirring collection of women’s writing on nature: Nature as healer. Nature as delight. Nature as mother and sister. Nature as victim. Nature as companion and reminder of what is wild in us all. Here, among more than a hundred poets and prose writers, are Diane Ackerman on the opium of sunsets; Ursula K. Le Guin envisioning an alternative world in which human beings are not estranged from... (more)

The Maytrees

by Dillard Annie

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, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems.In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and... (more)

Tickets For A Prayer WheelAnnie Dillard

Tickets For A Prayer Wheel

by Annie Dillard

Vital Signs : Contemporary American Poetry from the University PressesRonald Wallace

Vital Signs : Contemporary American Poetry from the University Presses

by Ronald Wallace

This ambitious anthology includes 179 poets published by university presses in recent years. Included are brief histories of poetry publishing at each press, their poetry list, and a lengthy, informative essay on the American poetry scene of the last 20 years, when programs granting MFAs in writing proliferated and many poets, like most in this book, became teachers of writing. For the variety of poets here, the... (more)

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