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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Paperback)
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Without qualification: my favorite book. Over the course of a year, Annie Dillard walks the land around her home. In these pages, we see what she sees, we follow the wild river of her thoughts - how am I take to make sense of the ecstasy in this experience? All I know is, I went places I never thought to go, reading this book, my heart beating deafeningly in my throat the entire time.
— From Madison's Picks!Description
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
“The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.” — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
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."
Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she 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.
About the Author
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.
Praise For…
“This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of this or any season...A triumph.”
— Publishers Weekly
“A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.”
— Time magazine
“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
"With Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, we suddenly find ourselves in the presence of an ecstatic and visionary genius. We are still there."
— Geoff Dyer
"Spirited and gale-force. . . . The best thing is her glee, a pied-piperish glee at being in the world, which she invokes better than anyone else."
— The Guardian
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