{"product_id":"pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","title":"Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Easton Press Signed Collector's Edition)","description":"\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eDILLARD, Annie.\u003c\/strong\u003e \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek.\u003c\/em\u003e Norwalk, Connecticut: The Easton Press, 2000.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eOctavo. Full dark green leather. Spine with four raised bands, 22-carat gilt accents. Gilt design, lettering and fore-edges. All edges gilt. Moiré silk endpapers. Satin ribbon page marker. 271 pp. \u003cstrong\u003eSigned Collector's Edition. Limited to 1,100 numbered copies. Signed by the author on the special tipped-in publisher's page. Includes signed Certificate of Authenticity, Collector's Notes, and bookplate adhered to front endpaper.\u003c\/strong\u003e Originally published New York: Harper's Magazine Press, 1974.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eAnnie Dillard (b. 1945) grew up in Pittsburgh, took her BA and MA at Hollins University in Virginia, and in 1971 began keeping the journal of daily observation that became \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e. She spent a year watching the creek and its surrounding Virginia Blue Ridge landscape with the combined attentiveness of a naturalist, a philosopher, and a poet, and wrote the resulting essays in a four-month burst the following winter. She was twenty-eight years old when the book was published in 1974. It won the Pulitzer Prize for General Nonfiction in 1975, establishing her immediately as one of the most original voices in American letters.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe obvious comparison is to Thoreau — a writer observing a small piece of the natural world with minute attention, using that observation as a vehicle for the largest possible questions about consciousness, time, beauty, and death. Dillard acknowledged the debt and worked within it, but \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is its own book: rawer than \u003cem\u003eWalden\u003c\/em\u003e, more willing to dwell in horror as well as wonder, more explicitly structured around the tension between what can be seen and what cannot be known. The natural world as Dillard observes it is not pastoral. It is violent, prodigal, indifferent, and occasionally and inexplicably beautiful, and her attention to it never flinches from what that combination means.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThe book is organised by season across a single year, and moves between modes of writing that Dillard herself describes as \"the literature of natural history, for the most part, and the literature of contemplation.\" The result belongs wholly to neither genre: it is something more like a meditation on perception itself, conducted through the specific textures of a creek, a field, a moth, a frog, a tree. The \u003cem\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/em\u003e described it as a book whose \"ambition is to feel.\" Annie Dillard's subsequent works include \u003cem\u003eAn American Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e (1987), \u003cem\u003eThe Writing Life\u003c\/em\u003e (1989), and \u003cem\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/em\u003e (1999), all of which extend the project begun here, but \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e remains her best-known and most influential work.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eNear fine. \u003c\/strong\u003eSome mild markings along gilt edges; otherwise fine throughout.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003eThis book is currently not on display in store. If you would like more information or to arrange a viewing, please contact: \u003ca href=\"mailto:rarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\" title=\"Harry Hartog Rare Book Department\"\u003erarebooks@harryhartog.com.au\u003c\/a\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp class=\"font-claude-response-body break-words whitespace-normal leading-[1.7]\"\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eCatalogue Number: HH000561\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Annie Dillard","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":49091247177971,"sku":"1110002990861","price":100.0,"currency_code":"AUD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0634\/4284\/5939\/files\/1_307692c3-5537-47bd-8771-797b44611c72.png?v=1779171588","url":"https:\/\/www.harryhartog.com.au\/products\/pilgrim-at-tinker-creek-easton-press-signed-collectors-edition","provider":"Harry Hartog Bookseller","version":"1.0","type":"link"}