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Synopsis
Dillard's autobiography is an exuberant account of growing up in 1950s Pittsburgh in a wealthy and accomplished family. Dillard conveys in polished prose the sheer joy of being young, smart, and passionately observant in a world she sees as endlessly fascinating.
Publisher's Notes
First Line: "When everything else has gone from my brain--the President's name, the state capitals, the neighborhoods where I lived, and then my own name and what it was on earth I sought, and then at length the faces of my friends and finally the faces of my family--when all this has dissolved, what will be left, I believe, is topology: the dreaming memory of land as it lay this way and that."
Industry Reviews
"Annie Dillard is one of Blake's company. She may or may not see auras--but she invariably sees something beyond what is just there."
New York Times Book Review - Noel Perrin (09/27/1987)
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