What can we know, and what remains beyond our reach?

In 1979, Annie Dillard witnessed the solar eclipse in Yakima, Washington. In Total Eclipse this celestial event becomes a metaphysical reckoning. With lyrical precision and eerie clarity, Dillard unforgettably evokes the strangeness of the shifting sky and the psychic dislocation that descends with the shadow.

The quiet yet epic unravelling of the familiar becomes revelation: a rupture in time, a confrontation with mortality and a brush with the sublime. Juxtaposing the cosmic and the mundane, Total Eclipse meditates on the limits of perception and language, entering the surreal intensity of the phenomenon to emerge with the brief, blazing clarity offered by darkness.

A Pulitzer Prize-winning author's meditation on nature, perception, and human connection

About the Author

Annie Dillard is the author of ten books, including the Pulitzer Prize-winning Pilgrim at Tinker Creek, as well as An American Childhood, The Living and Mornings Like This. 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. Born in 1945 in Pittsburgh, Dillard attended Hollins College in Virginia. After living for five years in the Pacific Northwest, she returned to the East Coast, where she lives with her family.

Book Information
ISBN 9781068591884
Author Annie Dillard
Format Paperback
Imprint Silver Press
Publisher Silver Press
Dimensions(mm) 198mm * 129mm * 3mm