For the Time Being

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A contemplative journey through wonder and existence.

If you find yourself pondering the grand questions of life, "For The Time Being" will speak to you deeply. Annie Dillard weaves a spellbinding narrative that marries the earthly with the sublime, prompting you to look beyond the mundane. It's a book that offers not just a reading experience but an introspective expedition into the significance of being.

  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2000)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.

For the Time Being

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ISBN: 9780375703478
Authors: Annie Dillard
Publisher: Vintage
Date of Publication: 2000-02-08
Format: Paperback
Goodreads rating: 4.14
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With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest—and often darkest—corners. Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, For the Time Being evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.
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A contemplative journey through wonder and existence.

If you find yourself pondering the grand questions of life, "For The Time Being" will speak to you deeply. Annie Dillard weaves a spellbinding narrative that marries the earthly with the sublime, prompting you to look beyond the mundane. It's a book that offers not just a reading experience but an introspective expedition into the significance of being.

  • PEN/Diamonstein-Spielvogel Award for the Art of the Essay (2000)
Note: While we do our best to ensure the accuracy of cover images, ISBNs may at times be reused for different editions of the same title which may hence appear as a different cover.