Holy the Firm
eBook - ePub

Holy the Firm

  1. 80 pages
  2. English
  3. ePUB (mobile friendly)
  4. Available on iOS & Android
eBook - ePub

Holy the Firm

About this book

'One of the most prominent non-fiction writers of her generation' GUARDIAN

Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard lived alone for two years in a plain room on an island in Puget Sound, a deep inlet of the North Pacific Ocean. In her solitude – with only a window to look out of, a cat and a spider for company – she bears witness to the mysterious, mystical and mundane: a moth consumed in a candle flame, a seven-year-old girl burned in an aeroplane accident, a baptism on a cold beach.

Holy the Firm illuminates the power play behind the moving curtain of the everyday. It asks questions about time, reality, sacrifice and death. It is a profound and breathtaking book by one of the most influential figures in contemporary non-fiction.

INCLUDES AN EXCERPT FROM AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD

Information

Publisher
Canongate Books
Year
2016
Topic
Social Sciences
eBook ISBN
9781782117742
Subtopic
Social Science Biographies
Index
Social Sciences

Table of contents

  1. Cover
  2. Also by Annie Dillard
  3. Title Page
  4. Copyright
  5. Dedication
  6. Contents
  7. Part One: Newborn and Salted
  8. Part Two: God’s Tooth
  9. Part Three: Holy the Firm
  10. About the Author
  11. Also available from Canongate

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