Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)

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DILLARD, Annie. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000. Octavo. Full dark green leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 271 pp. Signed Collector's Edition. Limited to 1,100 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special tipped-in publisher's page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper. Originally published New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974. Annie Dillard (b. 1945) grew up in Pittsburgh, took her BA and MA at Hollins University in Virginia, and in 1971 began keeping the journal of daily observation that became Pilgrim at Tinker Creek . She spent a year watching the creek and its surrounding Virginia Blue Ridge landscape with the combined attentiveness of a naturalist, a philosopher, and a poet, and wrote the resulting essays in a four-month burst the following winter. She was twenty-eight years old when the book was published in 1974. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975, establishing her immediately as one of the most original voices in American letters. The obvious comparison is to Thoreau — a writer observing a small piece of the natural world with minute attention, using that observation as a vehicle for the largest possible questions about consciousness, time, beauty, and death. Dillard acknowledged the debt and worked wit

• Binding: Hardcover

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