{"product_id":"books-pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-by-annie-dillard","title":"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek","description":"\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eWinner of the Pulitzer Prize\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eThe book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel. -- Eudora Welty, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"World of Books ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":53480716468497,"sku":null,"price":0.0,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0784\/4072\/6801\/files\/9780060915452.jpg?v=1777551433","url":"https:\/\/www.worldofbooks.com\/products\/books-pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-by-annie-dillard","provider":"World of Books ","version":"1.0","type":"link"}