Holy the Firm - Softcover

Dillard, Annie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060915439 ISBN 13: 9780060915438

Publisher: Harper Perennial, 1999

Synopsis

Essays on nature from Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard. "A book of great richness, beauty and power."-- "New York Times Book Review" "A book of great richness, beauty and power." "--New York Times Book Review"

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Review:

"A book of great richness, beauty and power."-- "New York Times Book Review""[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review...The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian. One thinks of Gerard Manley Hopkins, among others--nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear...A rare and precious book."-- Freferick Buechner, "New York Times Book Review"

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.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harper Perennial
• Publication date: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0060915439
• ISBN 13: 9780060915438
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 80