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National Bestseller "Beautifully written and delightfully strange—. As earthy as it is sublime, For the Time Being is, in the truest sense, an eye- opener."— Daily News From Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes For the Time Being , her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest—and often darkest—corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the...

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Author

Dillard, Annie

Publisher

Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group

Published

1999

Language

EN

ISBN

9780375703478

Category

philosophy

Subjects

Literary Fiction, Fiction, Religion