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Holy the Firm
Holy the Firm
Author: Annie Dillard
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, ab...  more »
ISBN-13: 9780060915438
ISBN-10: 0060915439
Publication Date: 9/1/1988
Pages: 80
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  • Currently 3.9/5 Stars.
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3.9 stars, based on 15 ratings
Publisher: Perennial
Book Type: Paperback
Other Versions: Hardcover
Members Wishing: 1
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A thought provoking and jarring look at the things we rarely consider beautiful (or don't want to consider). Dillard is always among my favorites.
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"This is a profound book about the natural world" (from the back cover)

"..."a book of richness, beauty and power ... The violence is sometimes unbearable, the language rarely less than superb . . . nature seen so clear and hard that the eyes tear . . ." Frederick Buechner, The New York Times Book Review


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