The abundance
Subtitle: narrative essays old and new
By: Annie Dillard ; foreword by Geoff Dyer
Contributors: Dyer, Geoff
Edition: First edition.
Publisher: Ecco, an imprint of HarperCollins Publishers
Published: 2016
Language: eng
Number of pages: 271
ISBN-13: 9780062432971
Copyright date: 2016
Subjects: American essays
Description: In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself.
Table of contents: title: From Teaching a stone to talk. Total eclipse ; The deer at Providencia ; The weasel; title: From Holy the firm. Paganism; title: From An American childhood. Waking up ; Skin ; Being chased ; Jokes ; Waking up wild ; Old stone Presbyterian ; Turning out badly ; Envoy; title: From The writing life. A writer in the world; title: From Image. This is the life; title: From Encounters with Chinese writers. Disneyland; title: From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. On foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley ; Seeing ; The waters of separation; title: Tsunami; title: From For the time being. Footprints ; For the time being; title: From Teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the Pole.