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The sailor put down the helm and Ada Fishburn felt the boat round up towards the forest. Read the first page
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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
Annie Dillard is one of the best writers today. Her prose is poetic and her poetry is perfection. The Living, a marvelous book about the trials and tribulations of pioneers, is gripping, descriptive, and wonderfully told. To read it, was to be transported. You felt the moss on the trees, you smelled the rich pines, you tasted the salt air. It's an achievement, in every sense of the word.
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Format:Paperback
So this was 19th Century Puget Sound before we messed it up with logging, suburbs, freeways, and all the other entaglements of modern life? I'm sorry I missed it; battling I-5 traffic is not nearly as adventurous as trying to fell 500 year old fir trees by burning out the core (it's in the book). A great story; Dillard is a quirky writer, but that makes the book fun.
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My book club also read this one. While one cannot dispute that Annie Dillard is a wonderful craftsman of words and prose, I didn't feel that she exacted the necessary character attachments and drama for this to be a successful novel. Perhaps we would have been better served had she stayed with her forte: non-fiction.
On the plus side, I have not read a more beautiful or perfectly written final paragraph in recent memory, which endeared the book to me more so than it would have otherwise.
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Prose craftsmanship at its finest.
This is prose craftsmanship at its finest. Dillard's imagery shimmers; her sentences are watertight. She tells a vast story with prose that is poetic in its economy of language. Read more
Published on 6 Aug 1997
A dark, claustrophobic book
My book group loved it. I was the sole exception. I did not love it. I found it a dark, claustrophic book. Read more
Published on 3 July 1997
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