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Author:

Dillard, Annie, author.

Title:

The abundance : narrative essays old and new / Annie Dillard ; foreword by Geoff Dyer.

Edition:

First edition.

Publisher:

Eccoan imprint of HarperCollins Publishers,

Copyright Date:

2016

Description:

xxvii, 271 pages ; 20 cm.

Subject:

American essays.
Essays.

Other Authors:

Dyer, Geoff, writer of introductory text.

Contents:

From teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the pole. The deer at Providencia -- The weasel -- From holy the frim. Paganism -- From an American childhood. Waking up -- Skin -- Being chased -- Jokes -- Waking up wild -- Old stone Presbyterian -- Turning out badly -- Envoy -- From the writing life. A writer in the world -- From image. This is the life -- Encounters with Chinese writers. Disneyland -- From pilgrim at Tinker Creek. On foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley -- Seeing -- The waters of separation -- Tsunami -- From for the time being. Footprints -- For the time being -- From teaching a stone to talk. An expedition to the pole.

Summary:

Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers, having been “re-framed and re-hung,” with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.

ISBN:

0062432974
9780062432971

LCCN:

bl2016003136

Locations:

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CMPE792 -- Drake Community Library (Grinnell)

OVUX522 -- University of Iowa Libraries (Iowa City)

CAPH522 -- Iowa City Public Library (Iowa City)

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SFPH074 -- Waterloo Public Library (Waterloo)

DPPE403 -- Kendall Young Library (Webster City)

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