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The Maytrees: A Novel
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The words in this book hold on to one another like the schoolboys in Homer's "Crack the Whip." Between sentences is where things happen the reader must attend. Take this sentence, which comes near the end of the book, "Philosophy, Lou thought and so did Cornelius, had trivialized itself right out of the ballpark." To me this is an invitation to r... »
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In Fact: The Best of Creative Nonfiction
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I love the book, thank-you. It also got to my university in time for the beginning of the semester. I was the only person that had it with such a low cost. Thank-you Amazon. You will be seeing me again.!... »
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The Writing Life
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Annie Dillard has spent a lot of time in remote, bare-bones shelters doing something she claims to hate: writing. Slender though it is, The Writing Life richly conveys the torturous, tortuous, and in rare moments, transcendent existence of the writer. Even for Dillard, whose prose is so mellifluous as to seem effortless, the act of writing can s... »
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An American Childhood
Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the ski... »
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For the Time Being
Over the last three decades, Annie Dillard has written about an uncommon number of things--predators and prose, astronomy and evolution, the miraculous su... »
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Holy the Firm
Annie Dillard is a creator of writing that frequently works like poetry trapped in prose's body. This little offering, in three jewel-like parts, is rath... »
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Modern American Memoirs
Annie Dillard, the editor of this collection, is widely considered one of the foremost American writers of nonfiction. Akin to the sophisticated, peerless... »
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
I first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my younger sister for a class she was taking. She wasn't gett... »
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