Teaching a Stone to Talk (eBook)

Expeditions and Encounters

Annie Dillard (Autor)

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2016
164 Seiten
Canongate Books (Verlag)
9781782117759 (ISBN)

Infos

In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze she captures the wonders of natural facts and human meanings: watching a sublime lunar eclipse, locking eyes with a wild weasel, or beholding mirages appearing over Puget Sound through summer. Annie Dillard is one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary non-fiction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. Teaching a Stone to Talk illuminates the world around us and showcases Dillard in all her enigmatic genius.

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

The trouble with hasty people like me is that we charge through our time on earth without noticing it. It was Annie Dillard who got me, before it was too late, to pay attention to where I was before I lost it. So I did. What abundance!

Superb . . . As with the flying fish, Annie Dillard doesn't do it often, but when she does she silver-streaks out of the blue and archingly transcends all other writers of our day in all the simple, intimate and beautiful ways of the natural master

This little book is haloed and informed throughout by Dillard's distinctive passion and intensity, a sort of intellectual radiance that reminds me both Thoreau and Emily Dickinson

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

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

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

Annie Dillard's words are the outpouring of a brilliant mind tempered by a pleading heart. Her distinctive voice and incandescent imagery lifts us to heights few writers can ever hope to aspire to. I came to Annie's work through her Pulitzer winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and have hung on every word she has written ever since. This anthology is the perfect introduction to her luminous prose, her insightful wisdom and her powerful engagement with nature and the human spirit

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

Produkt-Details

• Erscheint lt. Verlag: 7.4.2016
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Reihe/Serie: Canons
• Verlagsort: Edinburgh
• Sprache: englisch
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Biografien / Erfahrungsberichte
• Themenwelt: Literatur ► Essays / Feuilleton
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Natur / Ökologie
• Themenwelt: Sachbuch/Ratgeber ► Natur / Technik ► Naturführer
• Themenwelt: Geisteswissenschaften ► Sprach- / Literaturwissenschaft ► Literaturwissenschaft
• Themenwelt: Naturwissenschaften
• 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 • The Abundance • The Cabaret of Plants • The canons • The Living Dillard • the living mountain • The Maytrees • The Old Ways • The Writing Life • Thoreau • wendell berry
• ISBN-13: 9781782117759 / 9781782117759