{"product_id":"the-writing-life","title":"The Writing Life","description":"\u003cp\u003eA slim volume that bursts with insight by Pulitzer Prize-winning author Annie Dillard, illuminating the creative process and the trials of a writer’s life \u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e~ ~ ~ ~ ~\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eHow do you prepare yourself, all alone, to enter an extraordinary state on an ordinary morning?\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003eIn The Writing Life, Pulitzer Prize winning author Annie Dillard offers up her own trials in the pursuit of inspiration: the absurdity, the fierce determination and the sacrifices (warm feet; gainful employment; peace of mind). Her perennial guide, which wrestles with the hubris and insanity of the creative process, has been an inspiration and a comfort to writers for nearly forty years.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cbr\u003e\u003cem\u003ePraise:\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Dillard writes beautiful, mysterious prose and The Writing Life is as much about living life as it is about writing” - L\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eos Angeles Review Of Books\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A genuine source of pleasure. It’s accessible and conversational, funny and heart-breaking and tackles, sometimes directly, often obliquely, those questions of method and purpose that can haunt those who’ve made the mad decision to dedicate their lives to art” - Ir\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eish Times\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“Annie Dillard is a wonderful writer and The Writing Life is full of joys” - N\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eew York Times Book Review\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e”The Writing Life is a spare volume [ … ] that has the power and force of a detonating bomb. A book bursting with metaphors and prose bristling with incident” - D\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eetroit News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003e“A small and brilliant guidebook to the landscape of a writer’s task … Dillard brings the same passion and connective intelligence to this narrative as she has to her other work” - B\u003c\/em\u003e\u003cem\u003eoston Globe\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Gardners","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":52836415373659,"sku":null,"price":15.0,"currency_code":"EUR","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0569\/8951\/5850\/files\/zabriskie_dillard_writinglife.jpg?v=1777298084","url":"https:\/\/zabriskie.de\/en\/products\/the-writing-life","provider":"Zabriskie Buchladen für Kultur und Natur","version":"1.0","type":"link"}