Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

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Harper US
12 June 2007

Fiction & Literature; The natural world, country life & pets

"Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

""The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel."" -- Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of ""beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.""

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

By: Annie Dillard
Imprint: Harper US
Country of Publication: United States
Dimensions: Height: 203mm, Width: 138mm, Spine: 19mm
Weight: 249g
ISBN: 9780061233326
ISBN 10: 0061233323
Pages: 290
Publication Date: 12 June 2007
Audience: General/trade , ELT Advanced
Format: Paperback
Publisher's Status: Active

Reviews for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

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 A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration. --Time magazine This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of this or any season...A triumph. --Publishers Weekly One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today. --Boston Globe