The Abundance
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Publisher Description
'One of the most prominent non-fiction writers of her generation' GUARDIAN
Annie Dillard has spent a lifetime examining the world around her with eyes wide open, drinking in all things intensely and relentlessly. Whether observing a sublime lunar eclipse or a moth consumed in a candle flame, the trembling of lily pads on a pond or hundreds of red-winged blackbirds taking flight, Dillard's awe at the fragility of the natural world rejuvenates and inspires pleasure and heartache. Precise in language and deeply meditative in spirit, this is a landmark collection from one of America's masters.
APPLE BOOKS REVIEW
Whether she’s describing watching a total eclipse or discovering a mess of shrivelled moth carcasses in her home, Annie Dillard has an uncanny gift for bringing you into the startling, iconoclastic crevices of her mind. Dillard writes about nature, but in doing so, she makes profoundly beautiful and affecting observations about human life. The collected essays that make up The Abundance—written between the ‘70s and today—are absolutely mesmerising, origami puzzles to be admired from many different angles.
