Annie Dillard

"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 ReviewFrom one of America's most beloved writers, a collection of her own work - from Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, An American Childhood, and The Living - now in paperback. A lovely introduction to the prolific Annie Dillard's Pulitzer Prize-winning oeuvre, this sampler demonstrates Dillard's wide breadth of writing from the most minute observations to profound meditations on God in everyday life.

A stunning collection of Annie Dillard's most popular books in one volume.

Pulitzerprisvinnare om livets stora och små mysterier Under sina dagliga utflykter i landskapet runt ån Tinker Creek iakttar Annie Dillard naturens skiftningar och djurlivet som omger henne. Dessa iakttagelser, utspridda över fyra årstider, blir utgångspunkten för ett djupare utforskande av frågor som rör såväl skönhet och brutalitet som Guds närvaro i världen. Dillard har kallts för »Thoreaus sanna arvinge«, och hon beskrev själv Pilgrim vid Tinker Creek som »en teologisk bok«. När den gavs ut 1974 blev den en omedelbar succé både hos kritiker och läsare. Sedan dess har människor världen över fortsatt slå följe med Dillard under hennes vandringar, och låtit sig hänföras av hennes reflektioner över livets stora och små mysterier. I översättning av Roland Adlerberth. ANNIE DILLARD [1945], född i Pittsburgh, är en amerikansk författare. Hon har publicerat såväl poesi, essäer och skönlitteratur som litterär kritik och memoarer. Mest känd är hon för Pilgrim vid Tinker Creek som 1975 tilldelades Pulitzerpriset för bästa facklitterära bok.

How do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning? In The Writing Life, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard offers up her own trials in the pursuit of inspiration: the absurdity, the fierce determination and the sacrifices (warm feet; gainful employment; peace of mind). Her perennial guide, which wrestles with the hubris and insanity of the creative process, has been an inspiration and a comfort to writers for nearly forty years.

What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse, this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning. With lyrical precision and eerie clarity, Dillard evokes the strangeness of the shifting sky and the psychic dislocation that descends with the shadow.The quiet yet epic unravelling of the familiar becomes revelation: a rupture in time, a confrontation with mortality and a brush with the sublime. Juxtaposing the cosmic and the mundane, Total Eclipse meditates on the limits of perception and language, entering the surreal intensity of the phenomenon to emerge with the brief, blazing clarity offered by darkness.

När du skriver lägger du en rad av ord. Raden av ord är en gruvarbetares hacka, en träsnidares mejsel, en kirurgs sond. Du använder den, och den gräver en stig som du följer. Snart befinner du dig långt in på okänd mark. Är det en återvändsgränd, eller har du hittat det verkliga ämnet? Du kommer att veta i morgon, eller vid samma tid nästa år.Vad innebär det att vara författare? I Det skrivande livet utforskar Annie Dillard skrivandets villkor och redogör för sina egna erfarenheter av att vara en skrivande människa. Med lakonisk humor och sedvanlig skärpa formulerar hon sig om det skrivande livets våndor och glädjeämnen.

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.

In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respected and influential figures in contemporary non-fiction and winner of the Pulitzer Prize. With Teaching a Stone to Talk, she illuminates the world around us with a new and glowing light.

In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the Pulitzer-Prize winning author herself"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," warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating 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.The Abundance reminds us that Dillard's brand of "novelized nonfiction" pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life--a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud's poetry--with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of humor: on one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar.Including such classic essays as "Total Eclipse," "A Writer in the World" and "On Foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley," The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard's enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.

I mitten av 1970-talet slår sig författaren Annie Dillard ned i ett hus vid Stillahavskusten, ensam med en katt, en spindel och ett stort fönster med utsikt mot havet. Under sina två år vid Pugetsundet ställer hon sig frågor om tid, verklighet, offerdöd och Guds vilja. I Grunden den heliga skriver hon om en mal som förtärs av en ljuslåga, en sjuårig flicka som brännskadas i en flygolycka, ett dop på en strand, klippiga berg och salta hav. Resultatet är en lysande essä om livets skönhet och grymhet. Annie Dillard (f. 1945) debuterade med diktsamlingen Tickets for a Prayer Wheel 1974 och fick ett omedelbart genombrott året därpå med sin Pulitzerprisbelönade första prosabok, Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Dillard framstår som en modern naturfilosof, en Henry David Thoreau för vår tid. Tillsammans med Joan Didion representerar hon amerikansk nonfiction när den är som mest enastående. ellerströms har tidigare gett ut Dillards Att lära en sten att tala. Expeditioner och möten (2015).

In recognition of the Pulitzer Prize-winning author s long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself. 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, warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating 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.The Abundance reminds us that Dillard s brand of novelized nonfiction pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud s poetry with beauty and irony, inviting readers onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of humor: on one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar.Reminding us of the indelible contributions of this formative figure in contemporary nonfiction, The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard s enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked."

This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and farmlands, the Pacific Northwest coast, and tropical islands and rivers

"An American Childhood more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experienced another childhood." -- Chicago TribuneA book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s. Dedicated to her parents--from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions--Dillard's brilliant memoir will resonate with anyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.

A collection of essays on the natural world during a year spent in the Blue Ridge Mountains in Virginia reflects the author's interactions with her wilderness surroundings. Reader's Guide available. Winner of the 1975 Pulitzer Prize. Reissue. 25,000 first printing.

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation with its beauty on the one hand and cruelty on the other, it has become a modern American literary classic in the tradition of Thoreau. Living in solitude in the Blue Ridge Mountains near Roanoke, Virginia, and observing the changing seasons, the flora and fauna, the author reflects on the nature of creation and of the God who set it in motion. Whether the images are cruel or lovely, the language is memorably beautiful and poetic, and insistently celebratory. Just pay attention, Dillard urges throughout, and you will find yourself 'sailing headlong and breathless under the gale force of the spirit'.