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The abundance : narrative essays old and new / Annie Dillard ; foreword by Geoff Dyer

By: Contributor(s): Publisher: New York : Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers, [2016]Copyright date: ©2016Edition: First editionDescription: xxvii, 271 pages ; 20 cmContent type:
  • text
Media type:
  • unmediated
Carrier type:
  • volume
ISBN:
  • 9780062432971
  • 0062432974
Subject(s): Genre/Form: DDC classification:
  • 814.54 23
LOC classification:
  • PS3554.I398 A6 2016
Contents:
From Teaching a stone to talk. Total eclipse ; The deer at Providencia ; The weasel -- From Holy the firm. Paganism -- From An American childhood. Waking up ; Skin ; Being chased ; Jokes ; Waking up wild ; Old stone Presbyterian ; Turning out badly ; Envoy -- From The writing life. A writer in the world -- From Image. This is the life -- From Encounters with Chinese writers. Disneyland -- From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. On foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley ; Seeing ; The waters of separation -- Tsunami -- From For the time being. Footprints ; For the time being -- From Teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the Pole
Summary: In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself
Holdings
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Book Book NMC Library Stacks PS3554 .I398 A6 2016 (Browse shelf(Opens below)) 1 Available 33039001388791

From Teaching a stone to talk. Total eclipse ; The deer at Providencia ; The weasel -- From Holy the firm. Paganism -- From An American childhood. Waking up ; Skin ; Being chased ; Jokes ; Waking up wild ; Old stone Presbyterian ; Turning out badly ; Envoy -- From The writing life. A writer in the world -- From Image. This is the life -- From Encounters with Chinese writers. Disneyland -- From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. On foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley ; Seeing ; The waters of separation -- Tsunami -- From For the time being. Footprints ; For the time being -- From Teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the Pole

In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself

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