Annie Dillard's reflective nonfiction explores time, existence, and nature through personal and historical lenses.
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Annie Dillard's reflective nonfiction explores time, existence, and nature through personal and historical lenses.
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Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin d...
What's Inside
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Romance & sex
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Violence & gore
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Brief mentions of natural disasters and human suffering.
Profanity
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Substance use
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LGBTQ+ Rep.
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Religious content
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Central themes of God, faith, and religious history; frequent spiritual reflections.
Magic & witchcraft
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Occult / demonology
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Political content
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Minor reflections on cultural and historical societal structures.
Self-harm / suicide
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Abuse & suffering
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Recurring themes of human suffering and natural evil as philosophical topics.
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