false http://photo.goodreads.com/books/1165638467m/7695.jpg 7695 7 <p> In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooded room furnished with "one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person." For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice death, and the will of God. In <I>Holy the Firm</I> she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an airplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls "the hard things -- rock mountain and salt sea," she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire. </p> <p> This is a profound book about the natural world -- both its beauty and its cruelty -- the Pulitzer Prize-winning Dillard knows so well. </p> 1377055 book 1977 Holy the Firm total:739|5:368|4:212|3:121|2:30|1:8| 739 3119 952 101 4 1 false false Thu Nov 01 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Wed Nov 28 07:42:17 -0800 2007 Wed Nov 28 07:50:08 -0800 2007 more...]]> 2 0 false true Thu Jan 22 06:18:34 -0800 2009 Tue Jan 20 14:43:02 -0800 2009 Thu Jan 22 06:18:34 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 1 false false Thu May 03 21:32:53 -0700 2007 Thu May 03 21:39:07 -0700 2007 more...]]> 3 0 false false Mon Nov 24 00:00:00 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:34:11 -0800 2008 Mon Nov 24 11:43:36 -0800 2008 more...]]> 4 0 false false Thu May 01 00:00:00 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 13:36:19 -0700 2008 Tue May 06 14:15:59 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 2005 Thu Mar 13 10:41:30 -0700 2008 Fri Jun 27 07:46:27 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Sat Jan 01 00:00:00 -0800 1994 Sun Jan 06 23:02:48 -0800 2008 Sun Jan 06 23:12:47 -0800 2008 more...]]> 3 0 false false Sun Oct 21 00:00:00 -0700 2007 Sat May 02 15:56:55 -0700 2009 Sun May 03 14:14:53 -0700 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Mar 12 12:12:25 -0700 2008 Wed Mar 12 12:16:45 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Tue Dec 18 00:00:00 -0800 1990 Sat Nov 21 07:34:47 -0800 2009 Sat Nov 21 07:38:00 -0800 2009 more...]]> 5 0 false false Wed Jul 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 16:26:01 -0700 2009 Sun Jul 26 16:28:32 -0700 2009 more...]]> 4 0 false false Fri Mar 14 21:57:47 -0700 2008 Sun Apr 20 22:03:02 -0700 2008 more...]]> 5 0 false false Thu Oct 01 00:00:00 -0700 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:21:29 -0800 2009 Mon Nov 09 21:25:40 -0800 2009 speaks beautifully about how we trust God when he appears to be the terrorist. Open and honest raw emotion.
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