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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Annie Dillard

271 pages

About this book

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Blue Ridge valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "mystery, death, beauty, violence."

Themes
Eye-OpeningNature & EnvironmentSpiritual & ContemplativeWitnessing nature's violenceSacredness of the ordinaryRadical attention to lifeBeauty intertwined with death
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