Annie Dillard\u2019s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event, the business of eons and galaxies, however persistently we mistake its local manifestations for mere dust, mere sea, mere self, mere thought. The beauty and obsession of her work are always the integration of being, at the grandest scales of our knowledge of it, with the intimate and momentary sense of life lived.<\/p>\n
\u201cThe Maytrees\u201d is about wonder \u2014 in the terms of this novel, life\u2019s one truth. It is wonder indeed that is invoked here, vast and elusive and inexhaustible and intimate and timeless. There is a resolute this-worldliness that startles the reader again and again with recognition. How much we overlook! What a world this is, after all, and how profound on its own terms.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<\/body><\/html>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"
Marilynne Robinson, author of Gilead and Housekeeping, reviews The Maytrees: Annie Dillard\u2019s books are like comets, like celestial events that remind us that the reality we inhabit is itself a celestial event, the business of eons and galaxies, however persistently we mistake its local manifestations for mere dust, mere sea, mere self, mere thought. The […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1051,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[4],"tags":[2222,428,213,2221],"class_list":["post-26542","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-blog","tag-annie-dillard","tag-book-review","tag-marilynne-robinson","tag-the-maytrees"],"yoast_head":"\n
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