Holy the Firm
1977
First Published
4.20
Average Rating
76
Number of Pages
"[This] is a book of great richness, beauty and power and thus very difficult to do justice to in a brief review... The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb. Dillard's description of the moth's death makes Virginia Woolf's go dim and Edwardian... Nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear... A rare and precious book." — Frederick Buechner, New York Times Book Review From Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a book about the grace, beauty, and terror of the natural world. In the mid 1970s, Annie Dillard spent two years on an island in Puget Sound in a room with a solitary window, a cat, and a spider for company, asking herself questions about memory, time, sacrifice, reality, death, and God. Holy the Firm, the diary-like collection of her thoughts, feelings, and ruminations during this time, is a lyrical gift to any reader who have ever wondered how best to live with grace and wonder in the natural world.
Avg Rating
4.20
Number of Ratings
5,210
5 STARS
48%
4 STARS
32%
3 STARS
15%
2 STARS
4%
1 STARS
1%
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Author
Annie Dillard
Author · 19 books
Annie Dillard (born April 30, 1945) is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. Her 1974 work Pilgrim at Tinker Creek won the 1975 Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction. Dillard taught for 21 years in the English department of Wesleyan University, in Middletown, Connecticut. (from Wikipedia)
