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Excerpt from Les Aventures de Kamrup
O Dieu! Tu es vraiment le créateur de l'univers tu es l'auteur du monde visible et du monde invisible. Personne ne saurait décrire ta puissance, car ta science n'est manifeste à qui que ce soit. Dans les deux mondes tes oeuvres sont infinies. Tes merveilleux trésors sont visibles aux mortels; c'est de ces trésors que vivent les êtres animés, sans les trouver jamais épuisés. Quoique ta crainte fasse trembler tous ces êtres aussi bien que les génies l'amour qu'ils ressentent pour toi leur fait invoquer ton nom. Tu as tout créé par amour, et ton amour a agité tous les coeurs.
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Annie Dillard has written twelve books,including in nonfiction For the Time Being, Teaching a Stone to Talk, Holy the Firm, and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. She is a member of the American Academy of Arts and Letters and the American Academy of Arts and Sciences.
Summary
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, and idly shows her his poems.
In spare, elegant prose, Dillard traces the Maytrees' decades of loving and longing. They live cheaply among the nonconformist artists and writers that the bare tip of Cape Cod attracts. Lou takes up painting. When their son Petie appears, their innocent Bohemian friend Deary helps care for him. But years later it is Deary who causes the town to talk.
In this moving novel, Dillard intimately depicts nature's vastness and nearness. She presents willed bonds of loyalty, friendship, and abiding love. Warm and hopeful, The Maytrees is the surprising capstone of Annie Dillard's original body of work.
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"A gorgeous meditation on one couple's slog through marriage, separation and reconciliation."
