Abundance

<p><strong>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 Pulitzer-Prize winning author herself</strong></p><p>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 <em>The Abundance</em> 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 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.</p><p><em>The Abundance</em> 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 readers 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.</p><p>Including such classic essays as Total Eclipse A Writer in the World and On Foot in Virginia's Roanoke Valley <em>The Abundance</em> exquisitely showcases Annie Dillard's enigmatic enduring genius as Dillard herself wishes it to be marked.</p>