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  GEOFF DYER is the author of many books, including But Beautiful: A Book About Jazz (winner of the Somerset Maugham Prize) and Out of Sheer Rage: Wrestling with D. H. Lawrence. He is a writer in residence at the University of Southern California and lives in Venice, California.

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  PRAISE FOR ANNIE DILLARD

  “Annie Dillard is a writer of unusual range, generosity, and ambition. . . . Her prose . . . is bracingly intelligent, lovely, and human.”

  —Boston Globe

  “There is none better than . . . the great Annie Dillard, an essayist of savvy, wit, and uncanny insight.”

  —Kevin Barry

  “[One of] those who first made me want to try writing essays and set the standard to reach for when I tried, even as their more abiding commitment to the form keeps me humble by comparison.”

  —Jonathan Lethem

  “Annie Dillard is, was, and always will be the very best at describing the landscapes in which we find ourselves.”

  —Star Tribune (Minneapolis)

  ALSO BY ANNIE DILLARD

  General Nonfiction

  Pilgrim at Tinker Creek

  FOR THE TIME BEING

  Holy the Firm

  The Writing Life

  Memoir

  An American Childhood

  Fiction

  The Living

  The Maytrees

  Journalism

  Encounters with Chinese Writers

  Theory

  Living by Fiction

  Poems

  Tickets for a Prayer Wheel

  Mornings Like This

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  COPYRIGHT

  FOREWORD. Copyright © 2016 by Geoff Dyer.

  THE ABUNDANCE. Copyright © 2016 by Annie Dillard. All rights reserved under International and Pan-American Copyright Conventions. By payment of the required fees, you have been granted the nonexclusive, nontransferable right to access and read the text of this e-book on-screen. No part of this text may be reproduced, transmitted, downloaded, decompiled, reverse-engineered, or stored in or introduced into any information storage and retrieval system, in any form or by any means, whether electronic or mechanical, now known or hereafter invented, without the express written permission of HarperCollins e-books.

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