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Winner of the Pulitzer Prize
"The book is a form of meditation, written with headlong urgency, about seeing. . . . There is an ambition about her book that I like. . . . It is the ambition to feel." — Eudora Welty, New York Times Book Review
Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is the story of a dramatic year in Virginia's Roanoke Valley, where Annie Dillard set out to chronicle incidents of "beauty tangled
...5) The rosary
The Rosary was released to remarkable success in 1909, eventually becoming the bestselling book of 1910. Still popular more than a century after its publication, the novel centers on Jane Champion, an independent spirit who has many male friends, but who has never found true love. When a friendly acquaintance begins to turn into something more, Jane is puzzled and uncertain—and her doubts cast a pall over the budding relationship.
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