For the Time Being - Hardcover

Dillard, Annie

Hardcover

ISBN 10: 0375403809 ISBN 13: 9780375403804

Verlag: Random House USA Inc, 1999

Inhaltsangabe

From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek comes an intensely personal narrative that explores the rich diversities of our world, ranging from a natural history of sand to the rise of Hasidic thought to the eternal questions of God, evil, individuality, and time. 60,000 first printing.

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Annie Dillard is the author of ten other books, including The Living, a novel; An American Childhood, a memoir; and Teaching a Stone to Talk, a collection of essays the Boston Globe judged one of the best books of the 1980s.

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novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.

This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard poses questions about God, natural evil, and individual existence. Personal experience, science, and religion bear on a welter of fact. How can an individual matter? How might one live?

Compassionate, informative, enthralling, always surprising, For the Time Being shows one of our most origina

Details zur Ausgabe

• Verlag: Random House USA Inc
• Erscheinungsdatum: 1999
• ISBN 10: 0375403809
• ISBN 13: 9780375403804
• Einband: Tapa dura
• Sprache: Englisch
• Auflage: 1
• Anzahl der Seiten: 205
• Kontakt zum Hersteller: Nicht verfügbar