Teaching a Stone to Talk: Expeditions and Encounters - Softcover

Dillard, Annie

Softcover

ISBN 10: 0060910720 ISBN 13: 9780060910723

Publisher: Harpercollins, 1983

Synopsis

The Pulitzer Prize-winning writer shares her sharply observed, keenly felt encounters with the natural world--in landscapes of Eastern woods and farmlands, the Pacific Northwest coast, and tropical islands and rivers

About this title

From the Back Cover:

Here, in this compelling assembly of writings, Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard explores the world of natural facts and human meanings.

About the Author:

Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winner Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as An American Childhood, The Living, and Mornings Like This. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Dillard attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she lives with her family.

About this edition

• Publisher: Harpercollins
• Publication date: 1983
• ISBN 10: 0060910720
• ISBN 13: 9780060910723
• Binding: Paperback
• Edition number: 1
• Number of pages: 177