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The abundance : narrative essays old and new / Annie Dillard ; foreword by Geoff Dyer.

by Dillard, Annie.

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American essays -- 20th century.

American essays -- 21st century.

Women authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

Authors, American -- 20th century -- Essays.

9780062432971 (hc.)

0062432974 (hc.)

xxvii, 271 pages ; 20 cm.

From Teaching a stone to talk. Total eclipse ; The deer at Providencia ; The weasel -- From Holy the firm. Paganism -- From An American childhood. Waking up ; Skin ; Being chased ; Jokes ; Waking up wild ; Old stone Presbyterian ; Turning out badly ; Envoy -- From The writing life. A writer in the world -- From Image. This is the life -- From Encounters with Chinese writers. Disneyland -- From Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. On foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley ; Seeing ; The waters of separation -- Tsunami -- From For the time being. Footprints ; For the time being -- From Teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the Pole.

"In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author's long and lauded career as a master essayist, a collection which includes her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself. "A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader," warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction. Here is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The Abundance reminds us that Dillard's brand of "novelized nonfiction" pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life - a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud's poetry - with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of 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. Annie Dillard (born in 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut"--Provided by publisher.

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