'One of the most prominent non-fiction writers of her generation' GUARDIANPulitzer Prize winner Annie Dillard lived alone for two years in a plain room on an island in Puget Sound, a deep inlet of the North Pacific Ocean. In her solitude - with only a window to look out of, a cat and a spider for company - she bears witness to the mysterious, mystical and mundane: a moth consumed in a candle flame, a seven-year-old girl burned in an aeroplane accident, a baptism on a cold beach. Holy the Firm illuminates the power play behind the moving curtain of the everyday. It asks questions about time, reality, sacrifice and death. It is a profound and breathtaking book by one of the most influential figures in contemporary non-fiction.INCLUDES AN EXCERPT FROM AN AMERICAN CHILDHOOD
