An American Childhood
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Annie Dillard remembers. She remembers the exhilaration of whipping a snowball at a car and having it hit straight on. She remembers playing with the skin on her mother's knuckles, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge." She remembers the compulsion to spend a whole afternoon (or many whole afternoons) endlessly pitching a ball at a target. In this intoxi... More
Book Information
Publisher | G. K. Hall & Company |
Binding | Hardcover (34 editions) |
Reading Level | Uncategorized |
# of Pages | 396 |
ISBN-10 | 0816144915 |
ISBN-13 | 978-0816144914 |
Publication Date | 10/1988 |
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