Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

✍ Scribed by Annie Dillard

• Publisher: HarperPerennial; HarperCollins Publishers
• Year: 1974
• Tongue: English
• Weight: 181 KB
• Edition: HarperPerennial
• Category: Fiction
• ISBN: 0061847801

✦ Synopsis

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Paperback, 288 pages
Published 1974
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a 1974 nonfiction narrative book by Annie Dillard. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."
Dillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons.
It won the Pulitzer Prize in 1975 and has continued to receive acclaim from both critics and writers since then.
The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. A reader's heart must go out to a young writer with a sense of wonder so fearless and unbridled. --Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is a series of essays that combines scientific observation, philosophy, daily thoughts, and deeper introspection with glorious prose. --500 Great Books by Women
The precision of individual words, the vitality of metaphor, the sheer profusion of sources, the vivid sensory and cerebral impressions all combine to make Pilgrim at Tinker Creek something extravagant and extraordinary. --Kirsten Backstrom, 500 Great Books by Women
Modern Library, 100 Best Nonfiction Books