Abundance (eBook)

Annie Dillard (Autor)

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2016
217 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
978-1-78211-772-8 (ISBN)

Infos

Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard's awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pleasure and heartache. Precise in language and deeply meditative in spirit, this is a landmark collection from one of America's masters.

Autor

Annie Dillard was born in 1945 in Pennsylvania. She is a much-celebrated poet, novelist and essayist and author of thirteen books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. She was awarded the 2014 National Humanities Medal for her work deepening the understanding of the human experience. www.anniedillard.com

Rezensionen

Annie Dillard is one of those people who seem to be more fully alive than most of us, more nearly wide-awake than human beings generally get to be

Few writers evoke better the emotion of awe and few have ever conveyed more graphically the weight of silence, the force of the immaterial

Dillard archingly transcends all other writers of our day in all the simple, intimate and beautiful ways of the natural master

Dillard's style is spirited and gale-force. She raps out her opinions; lyrical, gleeful, cymbal-clashing, peppery. The best thing is her glee, a pied-piperish glee at being in the world, which she evokes better than anyone else

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 . . .She opens our eyes to the world and to new ways of articulating what we see

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Einführung: GEOFF DYER
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Schlagworte: An American Childhood Dillard • Caught By the River • Common Ground • Encounters With Chinese Writers • esther woolfson • For the Time Being • Gavin Maxwell • geoff dyer • Gilbert White • Helen Macdonald • henry thoreau • H is for Hawk • Holy the Firm • James Rebanks • John Lewis-Stempel • John Lister-Kaye • John Muir • Kathleen Jamie • Living By Fiction • Macfarlane Landmarks • Mark Cocker • Meadowland • Miriam Darlington • Mountains of the Mind • Nan Shepherd • Nature Cure • Nature writing • Olivia Laing • Patrick Barkham • Peter Matthiessen • Pilgrim at Tinker Creek • Pulitzer Prize • Ralph Waldo Emerson • rebecca solnit • Richard Mabey • Ring of Bright Water • Rob Cowen • Robert Macfarlane • roger deakin • Ronald Blythe • Sara Maitland • Shepherd’s Life • Teaching a Stone to Talk • The Cabaret of Plants • The Living Dillard • the living mountain • The Maytrees • The Old Ways • The Writing Life • Thoreau • wendell berry
• ISBN-10: 1-78211-772-5 / 1782117725
• ISBN-13: 978-1-78211-772-8 / 9781782117728