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Holy the firm / Annie Dillard.
Van Pelt Library BV4832.2 .D54 1988
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- Format:
- Book
- Author/Creator:
- Dillard, Annie.
- Language:
- English
- Subjects (All):
- Meditations.
- Genre:
- Meditations.
- Physical Description:
- 76 pages ; 21 cm
- Place of Publication:
- New York : Perennial Library, 1988.
- Summary:
- In 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
- Contents:
- Newborn and salted
- God's tooth
- Holy the firm.
- Local Notes:
- Acquired for the Penn Libraries with assistance from the James G. Barnwell Fund.
- ISBN:
- 0060915439
- 9780060915438
- OCLC:
- 18765851
- Publisher Number:
- 99996450629
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