An American Childhood
by:
Annie Dillard (author)
Format: hardcover
ISBN:
9780613132206 (0613132203)
Publish date: October 15th 2013
Publisher: Turtleback Books
Pages no: 255
Edition language: English
Category:
Classics,
Non Fiction,
Autobiography,
Memoir,
Biography,
Writing,
Essays,
Academic,
School,
Book Club,
Biography Memoir
It’s not often that I read memoirs; they seem, as a genre, somewhat too self-indulgent for me to spending several hundred pages mulling over at a time. I think I remember mentioning this to a friend of mine shortly after I graduated high school, a friend whose passion for books mirrored my own and w...
In An American Childhood Dillard traces her life from early childhood into adolescence. Her self-stated project is to show how a child “wakes up” to life, moving from the self-absorbed now-ness of early childhood to the rumblings of consciousness, the awareness that one is alive. As if to underscor...
Annie Dillard's writing is always pretty amazing, but I would recommend starting with [b:Pilgrim at Tinker Creek|12527|Pilgrim at Tinker Creek|Annie Dillard|https://d.gr-assets.com/books/1388717988s/12527.jpg|2280883] and then moving on to this.
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