TEACHING A STONE TO TALK : Expeditions and Encounters
by Annie Dillard
- Used
- good
- Paperback
- first
- Condition
- Good/None as Issued
- ISBN 10
- 0060910720
- ISBN 13
- 9780060910723
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About This Item
New York, NY: Harpercollins Publisher, 1983. First Edition, 7th Reprint . Soft cover. Good/None as Issued. Text/NEW, with margin discoloration. Softcover/VG w/edge & corner tip wear. Humidity (?) stains discoloration to front & rear covers verso. Anthology. Narrative & travelogues by Annie Dillard (1945 - ). Wesleyan Univ, Middletown, CT professor of English, and, 1975 Pulitzer Prize winner for Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. The essay "Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos" won the New York Women's Press Club award; "Total Eclipse" was chosen for Best American Essays of the 20th Century in 2000; and, Dillard herself notes, "'The Weasel' is lots of fun of a much-botched church service. "On Teaching a Stone to Talk" is a reminder to bear witness to all those mute materials we humans s psrt of. 177 pgs, 14 essays: 1, Living Like Weasels; 2, An Expedition to the Pole; 3, In the Jungle 4, The Deer at Providencia; 5, Teaching a Stone to Talk; 6, On a Hill Far Away; 7, Total Eclipse; 8, Lenses; 9, Life on the Rocks: The Galapagos; 10, A Field of Silence; 11, God in the Doorway; 12, Mirages; 13, Sojourner; and 14, Aces & Eights. Strong copy despite flaws.
Synopsis
Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.
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- Bookseller
- 100 POCKETS (US)
- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 019406
- Title
- TEACHING A STONE TO TALK : Expeditions and Encounters
- Author
- Annie Dillard
- Format/Binding
- Soft cover
- Book Condition
- Used - Good
- Jacket Condition
- None as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- First Edition, 7th Reprint
- Binding
- Paperback
- ISBN 10
- 0060910720
- ISBN 13
- 9780060910723
- Publisher
- Harpercollins Publisher
- Place of Publication
- New York, NY
- Date Published
- 1983
- Keywords
- Anthology/Essays/Nature/Travel
- Bookseller catalogs
- Narratives/Essays/Prose;
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