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It is the ambition to feel.\" -- Eudora Welty, \u003cem\u003eNew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003e\u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of beauty tangled in a rapture with violence.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eDillard's personal narrative highlights one year's exploration on foot in the Virginia region through which Tinker Creek runs. In the summer, she stalks muskrats in the creek and contemplates wave mechanics; in the fall, she watches a monarch butterfly migration and dreams of Arctic caribou. She tries to con a coot; she collects pond water and examines it under a microscope. She unties a snake skin, witnesses a flood, and plays King of the Meadow with a field of grasshoppers. 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For writers, it is a warm, rambling, conversation with a stimulating and extraordinarily talented colleague. -- \u003cem\u003eChicago Tribune\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\u003cstrong\u003eFrom Pulitzer Prize-winning Annie Dillard, a collection that illuminates the dedication and daring that characterizes a writer's life.\u003c\/strong\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eIn these short essays, Annie Dillard--the author of \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek \u003c\/em\u003eand \u003cem\u003eAn American Childhood\u003c\/em\u003e--illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that characterize the existence of a writer. 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