In 1975 Annie Dillard took up residence on an island in Puget Sound in a wooden room - one enormous window, one cat, one spider and one person. For the next two years she asked herself questions about time, reality, sacrifice and death. In Holy the Firm she writes about a moth consumed in a candle flame, about a seven-year-old girl burned in an aeroplane accident, about a baptism on a cold beach. But behind the moving curtain of what she calls 'the hard things - rock mountain and salt sea', she sees, sometimes far off and sometimes as close by as a veil or air, the power play of holy fire.
Holy the Firm is a profound and breathtaking book about the natural world by a Pulitzer Prize winner and one of the most influential figures in contemporary non-fiction.
- ISBN10 0553123882
- ISBN13 9780553123883
- Publish Date 1 July 1979 (first published 1 January 1977)
- Publish Status Out of Print
- Out of Print 30 March 2017
- Publish Country US
- Imprint Bantam Books
- Format Paperback (US Trade)
- Language English