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For the Time Being: Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)

Annie Dillard

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With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners.

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.

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Pages:: 205 pages

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Publisher:

Edition:: Vintage Books Ed

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0375703470

ISBN13:: 9780375703478

kindle Asin:: B003EJDGMS

For the Time Being: Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)

Annie Dillard

4.14/5 (3980 ratings)

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With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners.

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.

Format:

Pages:: 205 pages

Publication:

Publisher:

Edition:: Vintage Books Ed

Language:: eng

ISBN10:: 0375703470

ISBN13:: 9780375703478

kindle Asin:: B003EJDGMS

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