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The Abundance

By: Annie Dillard
Narrated by: Derek Perkins, Maggi-Meg Reed
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Pulitzer Prize-winning author

In recognition of her long and lauded career as a master essayist, a landmark collection including her most beloved pieces and some rarely seen work, rigorously curated by the author herself.

“Annie Dillard’s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event.” (Marilynne Robinson, Washington Post Book World)

“Annie Dillard is, was, and will always be the very best at describing the landscapes in which we find ourselves.” (Minneapolis Star Tribune)

“Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition.... Her prose is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human. ” (Margot Livesey, Boston Globe)

“A writer who never seems tired, who has never plodded her way through a page or sentence, Dillard can only be enjoyed by a wide-awake reader,” warns Geoff Dyer in his introduction to this stellar collection. Carefully culled from her past work, The Abundance is quintessential Annie Dillard, delivered in her fierce and undeniably singular voice, filled with fascinating detail and metaphysical fact. The pieces within will exhilarate both admiring fans and a new generation of readers and listeners, having been “re-framed and re-hung”, with fresh editing and reordering by the author, to situate these now seminal works within her larger canon.

The Abundance reminds us that Dillard’s brand of “novelized nonfiction” pioneered the form long before it came to be widely appreciated. Intense, vivid, and fearless, her work endows the true and seemingly ordinary aspects of life - a commuter chases snowball-throwing children through neighborhood streets, a teenager memorizes Rimbaud’s poetry - with beauty and irony, inviting listeners onto sweeping landscapes, to join her in exploring the complexities of time and death, with a sense of humor: On one page, an eagle falls from the sky with a weasel attached to its throat; on another, a man walks into a bar.

Reminding us of the indelible contributions of this formative figure in contemporary nonfiction, The Abundance exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard’s enigmatic, enduring genius, as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.

©2021 Annie Dillard (P)2021 HarperCollins Publishers
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