Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

Winner of the Pulitzer PrizeThe book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel.Eudora Welty,New York Times Book ReviewPilgrim at Tinker Creekis the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "e;beauty tangled in a ...