'Here is no gentle romantic twirling a buttercup.Miss Dillard is stalking the reader as surely as any predator stalks its game.Here is not only a habitat of cruelty and 'the waste of pain,' but the savage and magnificent world of the Old Testament, presided over by a passionate Jehovah with no Messiah in sight.A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.

The best thing is her glee, a pied-piperish glee at being in the world, which she invokes better than anyone else.' - The Guardian 'With Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, we suddenly find ourselves in the presence of an ecstatic and visionary genius.

“One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today.” - Boston Globe There is an ambition about her book that I like.It is the ambition to feel.” - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall. A reader’s heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled. There is an ambition about Dillards book that I like. “The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. “A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration.” - Time magazine 59 Reviews Reviews arent verified, but Google checks for and removes fake content when its identified 'An exhilarating meditation on nature and its seasons-a personal narrative highlighting. “This book of wonder is one of the most truly beautiful books of this or any season. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of 'beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.' Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs.

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