For the Time Being
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For the Time Being by Annie Dillard
NATIONAL BESTSELLER.From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a "beautifully written and delightfully strange" (Daily News) narrative thatrenews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest-and often darkest-corners.For the Time Being is Annie Dillard's most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard asks- Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images- pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.
"Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener." -Daily News
"Stimulating, humbling, original. Dillard illuminate s the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it."-Rocky Mountain News
Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as a number of other nonfiction books such as An American Childhood and For the Time Being. The Living and The Maytrees are two of her most recent works.
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| ISBN 13 | 9780375703478 |
| ISBN 10 | 0375703470 |
| Title | For the Time Being |
| Author | Annie Dillard |
| Condition | Unavailable |
| Binding Type | Paperback |
| Publisher | Random House USA Inc |
| Year published | 2000-02-08 |
| Number of pages | 224 |
| Prizes | Winner of Literary Award (Art of the Essay) 2000 |
| Cover note | Book picture is for illustrative purposes only, actual binding, cover or edition may vary. |
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