WILL BAKER (1935–2005) was a professor of English at the University of California, Davis. His books include Backward: An Essay on Indians, Time, and Photography and Tony and the Cows: A True Story from the Range Wars.
24 Ebooks por Annie Dillard
Annie Dillard: Maytrees
Brilliant. . . . A shimmering meditation on the ebb and flow of love.New York Times In her elegant, sophisticated prose, Dillard tells a tale of intimacy, loss and extraordinary friendship and maturi …
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Annie Dillard: American Childhood
"An American Childhood more than takes the reader’s breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you’re a different person, one who has virtually ex …
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€8.32
Annie Dillard: Teaching a Stone to Talk
"A collection of meditations like polished stones–painstakingly worded, tough-minded, yet partial to mystery, and peerless when it comes to injecting larger resonances into the natural world.&q …
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Annie Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
Winner of the Pulitzer Prize The 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.Eud …
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Annie Dillard: Living
Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier tow …
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Annie Dillard: Living by Fiction
A beautiful repackaging of Annie Dillard’s classic work of literary criticism."Everyone who timidly, bombastically, reverently, scholastically–even fraudulently–essays to ‘live the life of the …
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€7.99
Annie Dillard: Annie Dillard Reader
"One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today" (Boston Globe) collects her favorite writing selections in The Annie Dillard Reader.This collection of stories, novel excerpts …
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€22.86
Annie Dillard: Modern American Memoirs
"[In] this anthology of well-chosen excerpts by a satisfyingly diverse group of writers….the truth of their lives shines from every beautifully, often courageously composed page."Booklist …
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Annie Dillard: Writing Life
"For nonwriters, it is a glimpse into the trials and satisfactions of a life spent with words. For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented c …
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Annie Dillard: Holy the Firm
"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review. . . . The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb …
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Annie Dillard: Mornings Like This
"Found poems are to their poet what no-fault insurance is to beneficiaries: payoffs waiting to happen where everyone wins and no one is blamed.Dillard culls about 40 such happy accidents from so …
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€7.39
Annie Dillard: Abundance
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated …
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Russell Baker & Jill Ker Conway: Inventing the Truth
The author of On Writing Well presents stories and advice on the writing process from Frank Mc Court, Annie Dillard, and many more. For anyone who enjoys reading memoirs—or is thinking a …
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€15.41
Will Baker: Mountain Blood
The recollections and yarns, historical meditations and reportage brought together in Mountain Blood display a sensibility formed by the harsh, outlandishly beautiful terrain of the American West. Wi …
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€20.99
Annie Dillard: Holy the Firm
In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooden room – one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person. For the next two years she asked herself questions abou …
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Annie Dillard: Teaching a Stone to Talk
In this dazzling collection, Annie Dillard explores the world over, from the Arctic to the Ecuadorian jungle, from the Galapagos to her beloved Tinker Creek. With her entrancing gaze she captures the …
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€10.19
Dillard: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
This winner of the Pulitzer Prize in 1975, and listed by the New York Times as one of the best 100 non-fiction books of the century, gives timeless reflections on solitude, writing and faith amid the …
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€17.99
Annie Dillard: Encounters with Chinese Writers
<P><B>Winner of the New England Book Show Award</B></P><P>It’s been a pilgrimage for Annie Dillard: from Tinker Creek to the Galapagos Islands, the high Arctic, the Paci …
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Annie Dillard: The Abundance
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed …
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€11.27
Annie Dillard: An American Childhood
An American Childhood is the electrifying memoir of the wide-eyed and unconventional upbringing that influenced the lifetime love of nature and the stunning writing career of Pulitzer Prize winner An …
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€10.21
Annie Dillard: Viure escrivint
‘Per què voldria ningú llegir un llibre en comptes de mirar persones enormes movent-se per una pantalla? Perquè un llibre pot ser literatura. És una cosa subtil; una cosa insignificant, però és la no …
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Annie Dillard: La abundancia
La premio Pulitzer y candidata al Nobel Annie Dillard ha dedicado su vida a examinar el mundo a su alrededor con los ojos bien abiertos, bebiendo la vida de manera intensa e implacable. Ya sea observ …
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Annie Dillard: In der Zwischenzeit
Mit ebenso scharfem Blick wie Verstand, einer Vorliebe für das Wider- und Hintersinnige und einer unbändigen Sehnsucht nach Wahrheit wagt sich Annie Dillard an Fragen kosmischen Ausmaßes wie: Woher k …
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