Article: DILLARD DEFTLY PROBES LIFE, GOD.(Books)(Review)

Byline: Nancy Taplin

For the Time Being

By Annie Dillard.

Alfred A. Knopf, 192 pages, $22.

Annie Dillard, the prolific Pulitzer Prize winning author of Pilgrim at Tinker Creek is no stranger to recording her piercing observations of nature and humanity in novels and essays. Dillard's description of her work in the Author's Note is precise: ``This is a nonfiction first-person narrative, but it is not intimate, and its narratives keep breaking. Its form is unusual, its scenes are remote, its focus wide and its tone austere.''

Dillard's essays, quotes and thoughts are strung together in a halting and initially disconcerting way, ...

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