

The Maytrees
Author: Annie Dillard
Narrator: David Rasche
Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/12/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Women
Author: Annie Dillard
Narrator: David Rasche
Unabridged: 5 hr 46 min
Format: Digital Audiobook Download
Publisher: HarperAudio
Published: 06/12/2007
Categories: Fiction, Literary Fiction, Family Life, Women
Annie Dillard is the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, An American Childhood, The Writing Life, The Living and The Maytrees. She is a member of the Academy of Arts and Letters and has received fellowship grants from the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation and the National Endowment for the Arts.
David Rasche has starred on and Off Broadway, in some 35 films, and in such TV series as Monk, West Wing, Just Shoot Me, and L.A. Law.
I got myself in a snit over the review in the NY Times Book Review and sent the editor the following: To the Editor: Certainly Annie Dillard’s new novel, The Maytrees, deserved a more perceptive — indeed, a more proficient — reader than Ms. Reed (July 29). One wonders if she has ever considered the p......more
It was long ago that I bought the book, on a long, lone roadtrip southwest, in a favorite bookstore alongside the Rockies. I held it, carried it, kept it on my coffeetable, my nightstand, prolonging the sweet anticipation, knowing the coming reward. I have been (no hyperbole) in awe of Annie Dillard......more
It's hard to know what to make of this book; you can let yourself to be taken in by its beautiful prose and wallow in its lyricism; or to delight in the precise, glowing descriptions of landscapes and seascapes and emotional states-of-mind. But if you're into creating writing, perhaps not as a cours......more
Annie Dillard is simply the best living creative non-fiction writer. She has the rare ability to put common experiences and abstract emotions into words, and the structure and beauty of her sentences are pretty well unrivaled. If you don’t believe me, pick up An American Childhood or Pilgrim at Tink......more