- Fiction, History, Drama, Historical fiction
This New York Times bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century.
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Earnest, grave, classical in form and contemplative.
- earnestironic
- gravecomic
- classical in formformally daring
- contemplativerelentless
- unpretentiousprestige
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About the book
- Author
- Annie Dillard
- First published
- 1992
- Pages
- 416
- Publisher
- Blackstone Audiobooks, Blackstone Audio, Inc., HarperPerennial
- Editions
- 13
- Language
- English
- ISBN
- 9780060168704
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“The sailor put down the helm and Ada Fishburn felt the boat round up towards the forest.”
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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