{"product_id":"b003ejdgms","title":"For the Time Being: Essays (PEN Literary Award Winner)","description":"\u003cp\u003eNATIONAL BESTSELLER • From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek  and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a beautifully written and delightfully strange ( Daily News)  narrative that renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest—and often darkest—corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eFor the Time Being  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,  For the Time Being  evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eBeautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener. — Daily News\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eStimulating, 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. — Rocky Mountain News\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"ANT","offers":[{"title":"Ebook","offer_id":67938256486436,"sku":"YSL43130","price":4.19,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0805\/2614\/7620\/files\/61Wndgy2LML._SY1500.jpg?v=1793283424","url":"https:\/\/booktavero.com\/products\/b003ejdgms","provider":"BookTavero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}