An American Childhood
Autor Annie Dillarden Limba Engleză Paperback – 14 oct 2013
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s and 60s.
Dedicated to her parents - from whom she learned a love of language and the importance of following your deepest passions - this narrative tale will resonate for everyone who has ever recalled with longing playing baseball on an endless summer afternoon, caring for a pristine rock collection, or knowing in your heart that a book was written just for you.
Preț: 89.60 lei
Nou
Puncte Express: 134
Preț estimativ în valută:
17.16€ • 18.57$ • 14.30£
17.16€ • 18.57$ • 14.30£
Carte disponibilă
Livrare economică 18 noiembrie-02 decembrie
Preluare comenzi: 021 569.72.76
Specificații
ISBN-13: 9780060915186
ISBN-10: 0060915188
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
ISBN-10: 0060915188
Pagini: 272
Dimensiuni: 135 x 203 x 16 mm
Greutate: 0.2 kg
Editura: HarperCollins Publishers
Colecția HarperPerennial
V-ar putea interesa
-
Short Life in a Strange WorldToby FerrisPreț: 132.08 lei -
The Harbor Boys: A MemoirHugo HamiltonPreț: 85.22 lei -
Holy the FirmAnnie DillardPreț: 70.26 lei -
The Writing LifeAnnie DillardPreț: 76.11 lei -
Preț: 149.51 lei -
The Living: A NovelAnnie DillardPreț: 108.99 lei -
The Annie Dillard ReaderAnnie DillardPreț: 96.24 lei -
Mornings Like This: Found PoemsAnnie DillardPreț: 82.07 lei -
Modern American MemoirsAnnie DillardPreț: 100.92 lei -
I Love You and I'm Leaving You Anyway: A MemoirTracy McMillanPreț: 91.96 lei -
In Fact – The Best of Creative NonfictionLee GutkindPreț: 100.74 lei -
Preț: 419.53 lei -
The Web of DarknessMelvin M. CarpioPreț: 88.77 lei -
Saving the Lost ChildrenSandra LongmorePreț: 68.51 lei -
Above and Beyond Love and MarriagePaul NewPreț: 128.57 lei -
Preț: 96.13 lei -
The Trail HomeAlfred WohlpartPreț: 149.73 lei -
Life. Itself.Winifred BoggsPreț: 103.86 lei -
The Story of My Life - By ShaynaGreta MarshPreț: 137.55 lei -
An Indian JourneyWaldemar BonselsPreț: 195.90 lei
Textul de pe ultima copertă
A book that instantly captured the hearts of readers across the country, An American Childhood is Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard's poignant, vivid memoir of growing up in Pittsburgh in the 1950s.
Recenzii
"[An American Childhood] combines the child's sense of wonder with the adult's intelligence and is written in some of the finest prose that exists in contemporary America. It is a special sort of memoir that is entirely successful...This new book is [Annie Dillard's] best, a joyous ode to her own happy childhood." — Chicago Tribune
"A vivid and thoughtful evocation of particular personal experiences that have an exuberantly timeless appeal." — Chicago Sun-Times
"An American Childhood does all this so consummately with Annie Dillard's 50s childhood in Pittsburgh that it more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experiences another childhood." — Chicago Tribune
"An American Childhood shimmers with the same rich detail, the same keen and often wry observations as her first book [Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]." — Charlotte Observer
"By turns wry, provocative and sometimes breathtaking...This is a work marked by exquisite insight." — Boston Globe
"Every paragraph Dillard writes is full of information, presenting the mundane with inventive freshness and offering exotic surprises as dessert...[Annie Dillard] is one of nature's prize wonders herself--an example of sentient homo sapiens pushing the limits of the creative imagination. She deserves our close attentions." — Chicago Tribune
"Loving and lyrical, nostalgic without being wistful, this is a book about the capacity for joy." — Los Angeles Times
"The reader who can't find something to whoop about is not alive. An American Childhood is perhaps the best American autobiography since Russell Baker's Growing Up." — Philadelphia Inquirer
"A remarkable work...an exceptionally interesting account." — New York Times
"A vivid and thoughtful evocation of particular personal experiences that have an exuberantly timeless appeal." — Chicago Sun-Times
"An American Childhood does all this so consummately with Annie Dillard's 50s childhood in Pittsburgh that it more than takes the reader's breath away. It consumes you as you consume it, so that, when you have put down this book, you're a different person, one who has virtually experiences another childhood." — Chicago Tribune
"An American Childhood shimmers with the same rich detail, the same keen and often wry observations as her first book [Pilgrim at Tinker Creek]." — Charlotte Observer
"By turns wry, provocative and sometimes breathtaking...This is a work marked by exquisite insight." — Boston Globe
"Every paragraph Dillard writes is full of information, presenting the mundane with inventive freshness and offering exotic surprises as dessert...[Annie Dillard] is one of nature's prize wonders herself--an example of sentient homo sapiens pushing the limits of the creative imagination. She deserves our close attentions." — Chicago Tribune
"Loving and lyrical, nostalgic without being wistful, this is a book about the capacity for joy." — Los Angeles Times
"The reader who can't find something to whoop about is not alive. An American Childhood is perhaps the best American autobiography since Russell Baker's Growing Up." — Philadelphia Inquirer
"A remarkable work...an exceptionally interesting account." — New York Times
Notă biografică
Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. 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.