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The Annie Dillard Reader

Annie Dillard

Annie Dillard -- "one of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" ( "Boston Globe" ) -- collects her favorite selections from her own writings in this compact volume. A perfect introduction to one of America's most acclaimed and bestselling authors."One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." "--Boston Globe"

Book Details

  • Publisher: Harper Perennial
  • Publish Date: Sep 1st, 1995
  • Pages: 464
  • Language: English
  • Edition: undefined - undefined
  • Dimensions: 8.18in - 5.20in - 1.08in - 0.76lb
  • EAN: 9780060926601
  • Categories: LiteraryAnthologies (multiple authors)Coming of Age

About the Author

Dillard, Annie: -

Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. 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.


Praise for this book

"One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." -- Boston Globe

"She has a strange and wonderful mind, and the ability to speak it with enduring grace." -- The New Yorker

"A stand up ecstatic. . . . Like all great writers, she is fresh, jarring, passionately dedicated to her subject." -- Threepenny Review