Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard (1978, Library Binding)
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Product Identifiers
PublisherCengage GALE
ISBN-100816165718
ISBN-139780816165711
eBay Product ID (ePID)1553839
Product Key Features
SubjectMeditations
Publication Year1978
LanguageEnglish
Publication NameHoly the Firm
FeaturesLarge Type
TypeTextbook
AuthorAnnie Dillard
Subject AreaReligion
FormatLibrary Binding
Additional Product Features
Intended AudienceScholarly & Professional
Dewey Decimal242
Edition DescriptionLarge Type / large print edition
SynopsisIn 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.
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