Holy the Firm

In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.

Produktdetails

• Autoren: Annie Dillard, Dillard Annie
• Verlag: Harper Perennial USA
• Sprache: Englisch
• Produktform: Taschenbuch
• Erschienen: 20.07.1988
• EAN: 9780060915438
• ISBN: 978-0-06-091543-8
• Seiten: 80
• Abmessung: 134 mm x 202 mm x 6 mm
• Themen: Ratgeber > Natur; Poetry, Theology, Christianity, History of Religion, United States of America, USA, The Americas, Aspects of religion, Christian life and practice, Personal religious testimony and popular inspirational works, Spirituality and religious experience, Gender studies: women and girls, Nature and the natural world: general interest, Literature: history and criticism, Relating to Christian people and groups, HISTORY: WORLD, HISTORY: 20TH CENTURY AMERICAN, LITERARY CRITICISM: American / General, NATURE: Essays, HISTORY: AMERICAN, HISTORY: MILITARY, RELIGION: Christian Living / Spiritual Growth, RELIGION: Christian Theology / General, POETRY: Women Authors, HISTORY: 21ST CENTURY AMERICAN, LITERARY CRITICISM: Women Authors, LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Religion, LITERARY CRITICISM: Subjects & Themes / Nature