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In the book which won her a Pulitzer Prize in 1975, Dillard writes in the form of a journal, trying to understand God by chronicling the seasons along Tinker Creek in Virginias Blue Ridge Mountains, and by exploring the paradoxical coexistence of beauty and violence.

The Pulitzer Prize-winning novel about the remarkable year one woman spent in Virginia's Roanoke Valley--now available in a limited Olive Edition. "A remarkable psalm of terror and celebration."-- Time Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke... Read Full Overview

Pilgrim at Tinker Creek has continued to change people's lives for over thirty years. A passionate and poetic reflection on the mystery of creation with its beauty on the one hand and cruelty on the other, it has become a modern American literary classic in the tradition of Thoreau... Read Full Overview

Winner of the Pulitzer Prize

"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about Dillard's] book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." -- Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review

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