Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Paperback - 2013
by Annie Dillard
In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence.
Summary
First line
I USED TO HAVE a cat, an old fighting tom, who would jump through the open window by my bed in the middle of the night and land on my chest.
From the rear cover
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, Dillard 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.
Details
- Title Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
- Author Annie Dillard
- Binding Paperback
- Edition [ Edition: Repri
- Pages 304
- Volumes 1
- Language ENG
- Publisher Harper Perennial, New York
- Date 2013-09-10
- Features Price on Product - Canadian
- ISBN 9780061233326 / 0061233323
- Weight 0.55 lbs (0.25 kg)
- Dimensions 8 x 5.45 x 0.75 in (20.32 x 13.84 x 1.91 cm)
- Reading level 1100
- Library of Congress subjects Nature, Blue Ridge (Va.)
- Dewey Decimal Code 508.755
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Citations
- Christianity Today, 11/01/2014, Page 68
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