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Bibliographic Detail
Publisher G K Hall & Co
Publication date June 1, 1977
Binding Hardcover
Edition Large print
Book category Adult Fiction
ISBN-13 9780816165711
ISBN-10 0816165718
Availability§ Out of Print
Original list price $10.95
Other format details large print
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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.

This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.



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Hardcover
Book cover for 9780816165711
 
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Large print edition from G K Hall & Co (June 1, 1977)
9780816165711 | details & prices | List price $10.95
About: 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.
Paperback
Book cover for 9780060915438
 
Revised edition from Perennial (January 1, 1999)
9780060915438 | details & prices | 5.25 × 8.25 × 0.25 in. | 0.15 lbs | List price $13.00
About: Writing about a moth consumed by a candle flame, a girl burned in an airplane accident, and a baptism on a cold beach, Dillard bears witness to the violent incursions of the Absolute into the wreck of space and her vision of the power play of holy fire
Miscellaneous
Book cover for 9780061871658
 
With Annie Dillard | from Harpercollins (October 13, 2009)
9780061871658 | details & prices | 80 pages | List price $9.99

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