Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- Annie Dillard, Paperback Elaine N. Aron knowledge of--and permission to go

knowledge of--and permission to go after--our desires

Award: Geisel Medal (Dr

visiting scholar at the Center for International Conflict Resolution at Columbia University

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Pilgrim at Tinker Creek -- Annie Dillard, Paperback Elaine N. Aron knowledge of--and permission to goWinner of the Pulitzer Prize "The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about [Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review 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. Dillard's personal