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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.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the remarkable year one woman spent in Virginia's Roanoke Valley--now available in a limited Olive Edition. "A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration."-- Time Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke... Read Full Overview

In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, author Annie Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginia's Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"The 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 Review

Pilgrim at Tinker... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"The 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 Review

Pilgrim at Tinker... Read Full Overview