num_pages: 304
description: in recognition of this pulitzer prizewinning authors lauded career as a master essayist a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work the abundance includes the best of Annie Dillards essays delivered in her fierce and muscular prose filled with absorbing detail and metaphysical fact. Intense vivid and fearless her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of lifea commuter chases snowball-throwing children through backyards a bookish teenager memorizes the poetry of Rimbaudwith beauty and irony. These essays invite readers into sweeping landscapes to join Dillard in exploring the complexities of time and death often with wry humor. On one page an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another a man walks into a bar.Marking the vigor of this powerful writer The Abundance highlights Annie Dillards elegance of mind.
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title: The Abundance: Narrative Essays Old and New
publisher: Ecco