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Holy the Firm

Annie Dillard

Paperback | Pages: 76 pages

Rating: 4.22 | 3992 Users | 396 Reviews

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Title	:	Holy the Firm
Author	:	Annie Dillard
Book Format	:	Paperback
Book Edition	:	Special Edition
Pages	:	Pages: 76 pages
Published	:	December 30th 1998 by Harper Perennial (first published 1977)
Categories	:	Nonfiction. Writing. Essays. Autobiography. Memoir. Spirituality. Religion. Philosophy. Environment. Nature

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In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.

This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well.

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Original Title:	Holy the Firm
ISBN:	0060915439 (ISBN13: 9780060915438)
Edition Language:	English
Literary Awards:	Washington State Book Award (1978)

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Ratings: 4.22 From 3992 Users | 396 Reviews

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Beautiful lyric essay on God, life, suffering, holiness and humanity. So many sentences & paragraphs to re-read. Dillard reclined and pouncing in syncopated rhythm. Just try to keep pace!

I read this book in a literary theory class as a sophomore in college, and it shook the very foundations of my thought. I know this sounds (and is) vague, but this is a book about EVERYTHING, written with poetic economy, concrete images, and, I imagine, some kind of grace. Dillard reflects on what it means to be an artist (it's being a nun, being a moth on fire, being a little girl burned, being a tired, burnt out writer), and in the process takes on time, mortality, and fury at the spitefulness

This is one of the most beautiful books I've ever read. Annie Dillard at her mesmerizing, rambling, inscrutable best. The theme of this book (and from what I've heard, she's claimed only one reviewer from Harvard has managed to figure it out) is less concrete than Pilgrim or An American Childhood, so it might be a frustrating read for those of us that require some...um...logical point to a book. (Personally, I'm not one of them. I'll happily float along, immersed in her amazing words and

A friend of mine loaned me this little book, saying that it is her favorite book in the world and that she's read it many times. I was a bit skeptical, but took it anyway because I respect her taste in many things, but especially literature.Dillard's writing is absolutely breathtaking--I can think of no other word for it. She addresses some of the most painful human questions in the most beautiful way. After I return this book to my friend, I plan to buy my own copy, give it to friends, and read

In brief, this book is one case where I'd urge readers of this review to go find more interesting reviews of it to read, I imagine this one has spawned passionate comments from thousands of readers and writers. The beginning two sentences read like a revelation: "Every day is a god, each day is a god, and holiness holds forth in time. I worship each god, I praise each day splintered down and wrapped in time like a husk, a husk of many colors spreading, at dawn fast over the mountains split." I

Im a big fan of any book that makes references to Julian of Norwich

Just yesterday someone told me that Annie Dillard has said this is one of her least favorite books. Regardless, her self-standards are exceptionally high, and amongst our choices, her "worst" works must still be some of the most profound in thought and most unique in their creativeness. I haven't read much Dillard, but each time I do, I am astounded by her attention to detail and by her ability to create shockingly clear images with words. Indeed, her gift for using words is beyond explanation.