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Binding: PaperbackDewey Decimal Number: 508.9755792 EAN: 9780061233326 ISBN: 0061233323 Label: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Manufacturer: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Number Of Items: 1 Number Of Pages: 304 Publication Date: June 01, 2007 Publisher: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Release Date: June 12, 2007 Studio: Harper Perennial Modern Classics Editorial Review: Product Description: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence." Average Rating:
 Rating:  - pilgrim at tinker creekI found this book boring...I KNOW it was a Pulitzer prize winner. But, to me, oh, so boring... Annie Dillard is an excellent writer of course, and I loved her little book, The Writing Life. Rating:  - The result of relentless observationI first read this book in High School. I was impressed but 8 years later re-read the book to my younger sister for a class she was taking. She wasn't getting much from the book. But as I read it to her, I realized how supreme this book is among American Lit. Dillard's book is the result of relentless observation. Chapter by chapter she radiates a worshipful view of the natural world. Those who miss the point will complain there is "too much description" all the while missing her acute ... Read More Rating:  - An ode to nature better appreciated in small dosesAnnie Dillard was way ahead of her time in the spend-time-doing-something-interesting-and-then-write-about-it genre en vogue these days due to its use by Elizabeth Gilbert (Eat, Pray, Love) and Barbara Kingsolver (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle). The place Dillard writes about is the backcountry near Roanoke, Virginia, with its many wonders of nature, especially insects, birds, fish, and small mammals. She sets out on daily pilgrimages, a predator stalking prey (for observational purposes only) wandering ... Read More Rating: - A pretty hollow imitation of WaldenApparently, Ms. Dillard fancied herself being Henry David Thoreau -- she even named her pet goldfish Ellery Channing (Channing was Thoreau's lifelong friend). Structurally this book is organized similar to Walden, and it is Walden that Ms. Dillard tried to emulate. The book starts with a bloody, filthy and delirious little episode with a tom cat. Fortunately, the whole book is much more forgiving. There is no doubt that Ms. Dillard is well-read, as she gives us excerpts from Fabre, Edwin ... Read More Rating: - Five Stars--Seen ClearlyFind time to read "Pilgrim at Tinker's Creek". Annie Dillard writes about seeing--Seeing--and writes so beautifully about life seen clearly and meaningfully. It's an exquisite book that merges her observations on life in the beauty of the Blue Ridge Mountain Valley, and her experiences teaching the young, and her own surprising lessons in learning to See. Dillard is a brilliant writer whose prose is as agile and weighted and sonorous as poetry. Frankly, surprise, it often IS poetry--and ... Read More |
