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ISBN
0375403809
Book Title
For the Time Being
Item Length
7.8 in
Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
Publication Year
1999
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Item Height
1 in
Author
Annie Dillard
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Essays
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz
Number of Pages
224 Pages

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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-winningPilgrim 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 digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard poses questions about God, natural evil, and individual existence. Personal experience, science, and religion bear on a welter of fact. How can an individual matter? How might one live? Compassionate, informative, enthralling, always surprising,For the Time Beingshows one of our most original writers--her breadth of knowledge matched by keen powers of observation, all of it informing her relentless curiosity--in the fullness of her powers.

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Publisher
Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group
ISBN-10
0375403809
ISBN-13
9780375403804
eBay Product ID (ePID)
381427

Product Key Features

Book Title
For the Time Being
Author
Annie Dillard
Format
Hardcover
Language
English
Topic
United States / 20th Century, General, Essays
Publication Year
1999
Genre
Literary Criticism, History, Literary Collections
Number of Pages
224 Pages

Dimensions

Item Length
7.8 in
Item Height
1 in
Item Width
5.5 in
Item Weight
12.7 Oz

Additional Product Features

Lc Classification Number
Ps3554.I398
Reviews
"At heart Annie Dillard's work is a record of her search for God . . . [and]For the Time Beingis a brilliant book that . . . sums up God more succinctly than she ever has before." --David Bowman,Salon Magazine "This uncommon book is a testament to a rare and redeeming curiosity . . . an exhilarating, graceful roundelay of profound questions and suppositions about the human adventure in nature. And as always, reading Dillard makes this mind-expanding experience an emotional one . . . with a voice blending clear-eyed factuality with prismatic meditations on ineffable things." --James Zug,Outside Magazine "Writing as if on the edge of a precipice, staring over into the abyss, Dillard offers a risk-taking, inspiring meditation on life, death, birth, God, evil, eternity, the nuclear age and the human predicament. Her razor-sharp lyricism hones this mind-expanding existential scrapbook, which is imbued with the same spiritual yearning, moral urgency and reverence for nature that has informed nearly all of her nonfiction since the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winningPilgrim at Tinker Creek." --Publishers Weekly "This absorbing meditation . . . [is] a spare yet exquisitely wrought narrative . . . By turns funny, flinty, and sublime, Dillard meshes the historical, the scientific, the theological, and the personal in a valiant effort to net life's paradoxes and wonders." --Donna Seaman,Booklist "A work of piercing loveliness and sadness . . . One of those very rare works that will bear rereading and rereading again, each time revealing something new of itself." --Kirkus Reviews, "At heart Annie Dillard's work is a record of her search for God . . . [and] For the Time Being is a brilliant book that . . . sums up God more succinctly than she ever has before." --David Bowman, Salon Magazine "This uncommon book is a testament to a rare and redeeming curiosity . . . an exhilarating, graceful roundelay of profound questions and suppositions about the human adventure in nature. And as always, reading Dillard makes this mind-expanding experience an emotional one . . . with a voice blending clear-eyed factuality with prismatic meditations on ineffable things." --James Zug, Outside Magazine "Writing as if on the edge of a precipice, staring over into the abyss, Dillard offers a risk-taking, inspiring meditation on life, death, birth, God, evil, eternity, the nuclear age and the human predicament. Her razor-sharp lyricism hones this mind-expanding existential scrapbook, which is imbued with the same spiritual yearning, moral urgency and reverence for nature that has informed nearly all of her nonfiction since the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek ." -- Publishers Weekly "This absorbing meditation . . . [is] a spare yet exquisitely wrought narrative . . . By turns funny, flinty, and sublime, Dillard meshes the historical, the scientific, the theological, and the personal in a valiant effort to net life's paradoxes and wonders." --Donna Seaman, Booklist "A work of piercing loveliness and sadness . . . One of those very rare works that will bear rereading and rereading again, each time revealing something new of itself." -- Kirkus Reviews
Copyright Date
1999
Target Audience
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Lccn
98-036720
Dewey Decimal
814.54
Dewey Edition
21

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