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Title: The Living : A Novel by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0-06-092411-X Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 14 April, 1993 Format: Paperback Volumes: 1 List Price(USD): $14.95 |
Average Customer Rating: 4.12 (17 reviews)
Rating: 4
Summary: Grand Scale
Comment: Grand in scope and finely detailed...this is just the kind of journey-driven writing that I like. Quirky but real, like the conditions of our lives. I missed the lack of dialogue, though, and feel like she walks a thin line between showing and telling. A bit too much telling for my taste, because I was a little distracted worn & out by the end of this journey.
Rating: 5
Summary: Extemely Detailed - Classic Annie Dillard
Comment: An exhasutive piece of brilliance set in the Pacific Northwest circa 1850-90s. Dillard paints word pictures of the magnificent scenary as well as of the characters down to the minutest detail. A must read for those who want a realistic portrait of the difficult yet full lives the men and women led in settling and growing this land. She has cleverly written into her characters many underlying and intertwining themes that are evidence of her great talent. Only that she would write another novel.
Rating: 4
Summary: Depressing, but vivid
Comment: Annie Dillard has one of the clearest, most attractive writing voices I have ever read. It's almost always an eye-opening joy to read her, just for the way she puts words and sentences together. This novel is no exception, although it's not her best work.
The plot here - about the settlement of the Pacific Northwest, and some characters in and around Bellingham, Washington - is fairly interesting, although not compelling.
After about 100 pages, I started to find the title ironic: I felt it should be called "The Dead and Dying." One gets a real taste of how difficult life was in the 19th century, when the frontier was still being opened.
But Dillard's style does not mesh well with the demands of a novel. She is far better at conveying her innermost thoughts; her memoirs and essays are what make her so good. If you have the choice, read those rather than this.
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Title: Holy the Firm by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060915439 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Teaching a Stone to Talk : Expeditions and Encounters by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060915412 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: Living by Fiction by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060915447 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 01 September, 1988 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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Title: For the Time Being by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0375703470 Publisher: Vintage Pub. Date: 08 February, 2000 List Price(USD): $12.00 |
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Title: Pilgrim at Tinker Creek by Annie Dillard ISBN: 0060953020 Publisher: Perennial Pub. Date: 28 October, 1998 List Price(USD): $13.00 |
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