In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.

Holy the Firm

DILLARD, ANNIE

Harper&Row

Hardcover first edition with jacket.

Living by fiction

An American Childhood

Presents a memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s

Biographies & Memoirs

Arts & Literature

Memoirs

Harpercollins

A best-selling, Pulizer Prize-winning author looks at her craft and, in a series of illuminating metaphors and anecdotes, paints a picture of a demanding, unpredictable, and sometimes absurd existence

The Writing Life

The Living: A Novel

In a town near Washington's Puget Sound, fishermen, loggers, surveyors, miners, farmers, shopkeepers, and others struggle to survive as the town is born, grows, and enjoys a financial boom. By the author of The Writing Life. 100,000 first printing. $125,000 ad/promo.

Literature & Fiction

Combining excerpts from thirty-five of the most notable twentieth-century memoirs, a biographical treasury includes the works of Russell Baker, James Baldwin, Margaret Mead, Maxine Hong Kingston, and Henry Adams.

Modern American Memoirs

ey, Cort Conley

The author offers a new approach to poetry by going through old nonfiction books, finding passages that amuse or interest her, and rearranging them into poems that range from funny to serious to reflective

Mornings Like This: Found Poems

Poetry

The Annie Dillard Reader

A collection of passages selected by the author includes excerpts from the Pulitzer-prize winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, poetry from Holy the Firm, and recollections from An American Childhood. 35,000 first printing.

Living

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Books by DILLARD, ANNIE

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Holy the Firm

Living by fiction

An American Childhood

An American Childhood

The Writing Life

The Living: A Novel

Modern American Memoirs

Mornings Like This: Found Poems

The Annie Dillard Reader

Living