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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Harper Perennial Modern Classics) Paperback – Deckle Edge, June 12, 2007

by Annie Dillard (Author)
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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."
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  1. Print length
    302 pages
  2. Language
    English
  3. Publication date
    June 12, 2007
  4. Dimensions
    5.4 x 0.76 x 8.2 inches
  5. ISBN-10
    0061233323
  6. ISBN-13
    978-0061233326
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“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

"Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup...Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game...Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and 'the waste of pain,' but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah with no Messiah in sight...A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration." — Melvin Maddocks, Time

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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."

Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, Dillard 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.

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  • Publisher ‏ : ‎ Harper Perennial Modern Classics
  • Publication date ‏ : ‎ June 12, 2007
  • Language ‏ : ‎ English
  • Print length ‏ : ‎ 302 pages
  • ISBN-10 ‏ : ‎ 0061233323
  • ISBN-13 ‏ : ‎ 978-0061233326
  • Item Weight ‏ : ‎ 2.31 pounds
  • Dimensions ‏ : ‎ 5.4 x 0.76 x 8.2 inches
  • Best Sellers Rank: #17,404 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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Annie Dillard

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Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as An American Childhood, The Living, and Mornings Like This. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Dillard attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she lives with her family.