{"product_id":"for-the-time-being-annie-dillard-9780375703478","title":"For the Time Being","description":"\u003cb\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER - From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003ci\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/i\u003e and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a \"beautifully written and delightfully strange\" (\u003ci\u003eDaily News) \u003c\/i\u003enarrative that renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest--and often darkest--corners.\u003cbr\u003e\u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/i\u003e is Annie Dillard's most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard asks: Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images: pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, \u003ci\u003eFor the Time Being \u003c\/i\u003eevokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding. \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener.\" --\u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e \u003cp\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\"Stimulating, humbling, original. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it.\" --\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003e \u003c\/i\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAuthor:\u003c\/b\u003e Annie Dillard\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-10:\u003c\/b\u003e 0375703470\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eISBN-13:\u003c\/b\u003e 9780375703478\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublisher:\u003c\/b\u003e Vintage\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eLanguage:\u003c\/b\u003e English\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePublished:\u003c\/b\u003e 02\/08\/2000\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003ePages:\u003c\/b\u003e 224\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eFormat:\u003c\/b\u003e Paperback\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eWeight:\u003c\/b\u003e 0.46lbs\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eSize:\u003c\/b\u003e 8.06h x 5.20w x 0.60d\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eAward:\u003c\/b\u003e Literary Award - Winner\u003cbr\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cb\u003eReview Citation(s): \u003c\/b\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eNew York Times\u003c\/i\u003e 03\/05\/2000 pg. 40\u003cbr\u003e\u003ci\u003eChristian Century\u003c\/i\u003e 05\/04\/2010 pg. 30","brand":"Annie Dillard","offers":[{"title":"Paperback","offer_id":44050484265215,"sku":"9780375703478","price":16.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0662\/2982\/9887\/files\/img_82626c2f-e639-4ddd-9c11-0331b69e6360.jpg?v=1685007497","url":"https:\/\/www.whiterainbookhouse.com\/products\/for-the-time-being-annie-dillard-9780375703478","provider":"WR Book House","version":"1.0","type":"link"}