Dillard, Annie

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard ( Book )
88 editions published between 1974 and 2010 in 7 languages and held by 4,073 libraries worldwide
Observations of nature around Tinker Creek in a valley in Virginia's Blue Ridge mountains.

An American childhood by Annie Dillard ( Book )
94 editions published between 1987 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 3,281 libraries worldwide
An autobiography describing the author's childhood and life in Pittburgh during the fifties.

The living by Annie Dillard ( Book )
32 editions published between 1992 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 2,919 libraries worldwide
Late in the 19th century, surveyors, miners, farmers and other new settlers struggle to make a new life among the Lummi and Nooksack Indians in the settlement at Whatcom on Bellingham Bay near Puget Sound.

The writing life by Annie Dillard ( Book )
41 editions published between 1989 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,401 libraries worldwide
Dillard describes the working life of a writer. She probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, as she recounts what the actual process of writing feels like.

The Maytrees by Annie Dillard ( Book )
26 editions published between 2007 and 2010 in 3 languages and held by 2,389 libraries worldwide
Toby Maytree first sees Lou Bigelow on her bicycle in postwar Provincetown, Massachusetts. Her laughter and loveliness catch his breath. Maytree is a Provincetown native, an educated poet of thirty. As he courts Lou, just out of college, her stillness draws him. Hands-off, he hides his serious wooing, and idly shows her his poems. Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Pete appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. These people are all loving, and ironic. As Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness, she presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love.--From publisher description.

For the time being by Annie Dillard ( Book )
33 editions published between 1999 and 2011 in 4 languages and held by 2,218 libraries worldwide
This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard poses questions about God, natural evil, and individual existence. Personal experience, science, and religion bear on a welter of fact. How can an individual matter? How might one live?

Teaching a stone to talk : expeditions and encounters by Annie Dillard ( Book )
25 editions published between 1982 and 2008 in 4 languages and held by 2,026 libraries worldwide
From eastern woods and farmlands to the Pacific northwest coast, to tropical islands and rivers, the author explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

Holy the firm by Annie Dillard ( Book )
17 editions published between 1977 and 2009 in English and held by 1,798 libraries worldwide
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.

Living by fiction by Annie Dillard ( Book )
18 editions published between 1982 and 1988 in English and held by 1,629 libraries worldwide
A discussion of how contemporary fiction reflects contemporary thought and attitudes and draws on the works of Nabokov, Barth, Pynchon, Borges, Garcia Marquez, Beckett, Calvino, and others.

Tickets for a prayer wheel; poems by Annie Dillard ( Book )
11 editions published between 1974 and 1988 in English and German and held by 1,167 libraries worldwide