Her personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. What she sees are astonishing incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence." Annie Dillard sets out to see what she can see. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley. The result is an exhilarating tale of nature and its seasons. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. She tries to con a coot she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled in a rapture with violence."ĭillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. It is the ambition to feel." - Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review There is an ambition about book that I like. "The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. About the Book In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence.
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