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A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
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Earnest, classical in form, grave and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- classical in formformally daring
- gravecomic
- contemplativerelentless
- character-ledplot-driven
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- Author
- Annie Dillard
- First published
- 1987
- Pages
- 255
- Publisher
- HarperCollins, Harper & Row, Canongate Books
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780061476075
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“THE STORY STARTS BACK IN 1950, when I was five.”
Annie Dillard is an American author, best known for her narrative prose in both fiction and non-fiction. She has published works of poetry, essays, prose, and literary criticism, as well as two novels and one memoir. - Wikipedia
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