Pilgrim at Tinker CreekPilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence." |
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User Review - k6gst - LibraryThingReally great. "I have often noticed that these things, which obsess me, neither bother nor impress other people even slightly. I am horribly apt to approach some innocent at a gathering and, like the ... Read full review
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User Review - fiverivers - LibraryThingFor me, Annie Dillard's Pulitzer-winning pastoral ponderings were a complete miss. Overall the writing swung from pretentious to dull, her musings entirely self-absorbed, and clearly her modern ... Read full review
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| Title | Pilgrim at Tinker Creek Harper Perennial modern classics Perennial classic Pulitzer Prize in letters: General non-fiction |
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| Edition | illustrated, reprint, reissue |
| Publisher | Harper Collins, 2007 |
| ISBN | 0061233323, 9780061233326 |
| Length | 304 pages |
| Subjects | › Biography & Autobiography / General |
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