For the Time Being

“At heart Annie Dillard’s work is a record of her search for God … [and] For the Time Being is a brilliant book that … sums up God more succinctly than she ever has before.”–David Bowman, Salon Magazine“This uncommon book is a testament to a rare and redeeming curiosity … an exhilarating, graceful roundelay of profound questions and suppositions about the human adventure in nature. And as always, reading Dillard makes this mind-expanding experience an emotional one … with a voice blending clear-eyed factuality with prismatic meditations on ineffable things.”–James Zug, Outside Magazine“Writing as if on the edge of a precipice, staring over into the abyss, Dillard offers a risk-taking, inspiring meditation on life, death, birth, God, evil, eternity, the nuclear age and the human predicament. Her razor-sharp lyricism hones this mind-expanding existential scrapbook, which is imbued with the same spiritual yearning, moral urgency and reverence for nature that has informed nearly all of her nonfiction since the 1972 Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek.”–Publishers Weekly“This absorbing meditation … [is] a spare yet exquisitely wrought narrative … By turns funny, flinty, and sublime, Dillard meshes the historical, the scientific, the theological, and the personal in a valiant effort to net life’s paradoxes and wonders.”–Donna Seaman, Booklist“A work of piercing loveliness and sadness … One of those very rare works that will bear rereading and rereading again, each time revealing something new of itself.”–Kirkus Reviews

Annie Dillard lives in Middletown, Connecticut.

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