For the Time Being

Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)

Annie Dillard

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English

Vintage
01 December 2000

Fiction & Literature; Philosophy

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From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a ""beautifully written and delightfully strange"" (Daily News) narrative thatrenews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest-and often darkest-corners.

For the Time Being is Annie Dillard's most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard asks- Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images- pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.

""Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener."" -Daily News

""Stimulating, humbling, original.

Dillard

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the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it.""-Rocky Mountain News

By: Annie Dillard
Imprint: Vintage
Country of Publication: United States
Edition: Vintage Books ed
Dimensions: Height: 202mm, Width: 131mm, Spine: 15mm
Weight: 176g
ISBN: 9780375703478
ISBN 10: 0375703470
Pages: 205
Publication Date: 01 December 2000
Audience: General/trade , College/higher education , ELT Advanced , A / AS level
Format: Other merchandise
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for For the Time Being: Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)

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. <br>--David Bowman, Salon Magazine <br> 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. <br>--James Zug, Outside Magazine <br> 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 reverencee