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The abundance, narrative essays old and new, Annie Dillard ; with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

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The abundance, narrative essays old and new, Annie Dillard ; with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

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eng

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essays

Main title

The abundance

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936318818

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Annie Dillard ; with a foreword by Geoff Dyer

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narrative essays old and new

Summary

The Abundance includes the best of Annie Dillard's essays, delivered in her fierce and muscular prose, filled with absorbing detail and metaphysical fact. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life--a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through backyards, a bookish teenager memorizes the poetry of Rimbaud--with beauty and irony. These essays invite readers into sweeping landscapes, to join Dillard in exploring the complexities of time and death, often with wry humor. On one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar

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adult

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