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For the Time Being
by Dillard, Annie
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- Signed
- first
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- Fine - As New/No Jacket as Issued
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About This Item
Norwalk, Connecticut: Easton Press, 1999. Limited Numbered First Edition. Full Leather. Fine - As New/No Jacket as Issued. A handsome black leather signed Limited Numbered First Edition by Annie Dillard, the author of the Pulitzer Prize-winning "Pilgrim at Tinker Creek." Numbered 1033 of 1,100 limited edition copies. In fine unread condition but for a tiny tiny nick on the top edge, very minor. With moire silk endpapers, gold-gilt cover designs and page edges, and bound-in silk bookmark. Other books by Annie Dillard include "An American Childhood," "The Writing Life," "Teaching the Stones to Talk," and "The Living." Includes the publisher's Note and Certificate of Authenticity from Easton Press. A fine copy by one of America's most original writers.
Synopsis
Following a novel, a memoir, and a book of poems, Annie Dillard returns to a form of nonfiction she has made her own--now, on the twenty-fifth anniversary of the publication of the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.This personal narrative surveys the panorama of our world, past and present. Here is a natural history of sand, a catalogue of clouds, a batch of newborns on an obstetrical ward, a family of Mongol horsemen. Here is the story of Jesuit paleontologist Teilhard de Chardin digging in the deserts of China. Here is the story of Hasidic thought rising in Eastern Europe. Here are defect and beauty together, miracle and tragedy, time and eternity. Dillard poses questions about God, natural evil, and individual existence. Personal experience, science, and religion bear on a welter of fact. How can an individual matter? How might one live?Compassionate, informative, enthralling, always surprising, For the Time Being shows one of our most original writers--her breadth of knowledge matched by keen powers of observation, all of it informing her relentless curiosity--in the fullness of her powers.From the Hardcover edition.
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- Bookseller
- Parrish Books
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- Bookseller's Inventory #
- 3817
- Title
- For the Time Being
- Author
- Dillard, Annie
- Format/Binding
- Full Leather
- Book Condition
- New Fine - As New
- Jacket Condition
- No Jacket as Issued
- Quantity Available
- 1
- Edition
- Limited Numbered First Edition
- Publisher
- Easton Press
- Place of Publication
- Norwalk, Connecticut
- Date Published
- 1999
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