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The Writing Life
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LENGTH2 hrs and 37 mins
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RELEASE DATE03-04-11
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Program TypeAudiobook
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Publisher's Summary
With color, irony, and sensitivity, Pulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard illuminates the dedication, absurdity, and daring that is the writer’s life. As it probes and exposes, examines and analyzes, The Writing Life offers deeper insight into one of the most mysterious of professions.
©1989 Annie Dillard (P)2011 Blackstone Audio, Inc.
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“Annie Dillard is a wonderful writer, and The Writing Life is full of joys.” (New York Times Book Review)
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"A good place to start"
If you've considered listening to Annie Dillard, I consider this a classic. I've owned this book in print form for a dozen or so years and have thought a lot about the content and how the content comes to all of us (the life of a writer). Be ready for great insights coming from small observances as well as fantastic stories that are commentaries on all of our lives. This is a writing to be pondered so let it sink in a little at a time.
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"Loved Annie Dillard"
I always love memoirs ... and this book is kind of a memoir ... it's well written and exciting .. if you are like me fascinated with the life of writers and artists this book will give you a glimpse of what's it like to be a writer (an excellent book would be my reading life for par conroy ... i loved that one)
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Pam United States 04-14-13 Member Since 2007Science writer in America's heartland
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"Reads like a poem"
This is written in the spirit of a long-form poem, as an ode to (and lamentation of) the creative life. There's some good information here—not presented as a to-do list, but rather as a story, where we learn from the example of the author and her life as a writer. The narrator is absolutely excellent, with her voice inflections worthy of a poetry performance.
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