The Living

Zusatztext “A panoramic, hypnotic novel. . . . A novel of character that blends history, social change, and individual dreams in a sophisticated, seamless prose.” Informationen zum Autor Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living  and  The Maytrees . She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Klappentext This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. Zusammenfassung “Remarkable. . . . A deftly woven narrative saturated with violence, hardship, and triumph. Readers will be richly rewarded, for by the end of this deeply felt novel it is hard to let the frontier town and its people go.”  — San Francisco Chronicle This  New York Times  bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of pioneer life navigated by European settlers and Lummi natives in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century. The Living is a tale full of gold minors, friendly railroad speculators, doe-eyed sweethearts, shifty card players, and 19th century adventures that will stay with you long after you close the book.

Product details

• Authors: Annie Dillard, Dillard Annie
• Publisher: Harper Perennial USA
• Languages: English
• Product format: Paperback / Softback
• Released: 12.11.2013
• EAN: 9780060924119
• ISBN: 978-0-06-092411-9
• No. of pages: 397
• Dimensions: 134 mm x 203 mm x 23 mm
• Subjects: Fiction > Narrative literature; FICTION: Literary, FICTION: Family Life / General, FICTION: Historical / General, FICTION: Romance / Historical / 20th Century, LITERARY COLLECTIONS: Women Authors, FICTION: Classics, FICTION: Historical / Civil War Era, FICTION: World Literature / American / 20th Century