This "New York Times" bestselling novel by Pulitzer Prize-winning author
Annie Dillard is a mesmerizing evocation of life in the Pacific
Northwest during the last decades of the 19th century".An august
celebration of human frenzy and endurance [and]...an invigorating,
intricate first novel. Annie Dillard [shows a] tremendous gift for
writing in a genuinely epic mode". "--New York Times Book Review"