The Abundance - Narrative Essays Old and New

A landmark collection of prose from pulitzer prize winner annie dillard, including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work The Abundance includes the best of Annie Dillard's essays, delivered in her fierce and muscular prose. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life with beauty and irony. These essays invite readers into sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, often with wry humor. On one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar. Marking the vigor of this powerful writer, The Abundance highlights Annie Dillard's elegance of mind.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Dillard
• Publisher: Ecco Press
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback
• Released: 28.02.2017
• EAN: 9780062432964
• ISBN: 978-0-06-243296-4
• No. of pages: 304
• Dimensions: 140 mm x 185 mm x 20 mm
• Series: Ecco Press
• Subjects: Fiction > Poetry, drama; Travel writing, History of Science, Biology, life sciences, Ecological science, the Biosphere, LITERATURE: WOMEN'S LITERATURE, NATURE: Essays, TRAVEL: Essays & Travelogues, POETRY: American / General, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Essays, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: American / General, LITERATURE: LITERARY CRITICISM, SCIENCE: History, WOMEN'S LITERATURE: LITERATURE/MEMOIR, SCIENCE: Natural History, Women's Literature / Literature/Memoir, Literature / Literary Criticism, Literature / Women's Literature