Holy the Firm (Magill’s Survey of American Literature, Revised Edition)
At a glance:
- Author: Annie Dillard
- First Published: 1977
- Type of Work: Nonfiction
- Genres: Nonfiction
- Subjects: Children, Suffering, Twentieth century, Religion, God, Pain, Death or dying, Faith, Metaphysics, Moths, Innocence, Washington
- Locales: Washington
In Holy the Firm Dillard explores the metaphysical and religious concerns that inform her first two books, Tickets for a Prayer Wheel and Pilgrim at Tinker Creek. In this book, Dillard looks more closely at the problem of pain: How can one reconcile the existence of pain, suffering, and death with a belief in a benevolent God? Set near Puget Sound, Washington, where Dillard lived while writing it, the book is short, spanning only three days. In the first of its three sections, “Newborn and Salted,” Dillard describes a moth being attracted to the flame of a...
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