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An American Childhood by Annie Dillard
$0.00 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, "An American Childhood" is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard
$42.00 NZD
Category: Animals | Series: HarperPerennial Modern Classics Ser.
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia re ...Show more
Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Popular Science | Series: Canons
In Teaching a Stone to Talk, Annie Dillard fixes her entrancing gaze and powerful sense of wonder on the natural world. Whether watching a sublime lunar eclipse or locking eyes with a wild weasel, Dillard captures the grand and miniature miracles of our universe. Annie Dillard is one of the most respect ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
$39.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Reading Level: very good
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. She conjures currents of magic and wisdom, illuminating the seemingly ordinary moments of a life lived fearlessly - as a breathless teenager, as a roving young adult ...Show more
The Abundance by Annie Dillard
$24.99 NZD
Category: Biography & Memoir | Series: Canons
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 in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking fligh ...Show more
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
$39.00 NZD
Category: Fiction
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, a ...Show more
The Maytrees by Annie Dillard
$29.99 NZD
Category: Fiction
It began when Lou Bigelow and Toby Maytree first met. He was back home in Provincetown after the war. Maytree first saw her on a bicycle. A red scarf, white shirt, skin clean as eggshell, wide eyes and mouth, shorts. She stopped and leaned on a leg to talk to someone on the street. She laughed, and her ...Show more
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