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Thanks for telling us about the problem. Return to Book Page. An American Childohod by Annie Dillard. 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 My Childhood Into High School, which "didn't snap back; it lay dead across her knuckle in a yellowish ridge.

In this intoxicating account of her childhood, Dillard climbs back inside her 5-,and year-old selves with apparent effortlessness. The voracious young Dillard embraces headlong one fascination after another--from drawing to rocks and bugs to the French symbolists.

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And one would be mistaken to call the energy Dillard exhibits in An American Childhood merely youthful; "still I break up through the skin of awareness a thousand times a day," she writes, "as dolphins burst through seas, and dive again, and rise, and dive. Get A Copy. Kindle Editionpages. Published October 13th by HarperCollins e-books first published September 1st More Details Original Title. Pittsburgh, Pennsylvania United States. Other Editions Childhoood Reviews. To see what your friends thought of this book, please sign up.

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To ask other readers questions about An American Childhoodplease sign up. Just a few nIto into this book, I'm trying to decide if it's a novel or a memoir or autobiography? Allie Mcintosh It is a memoir! See all 4 questions about An American Childhood…. Lists with This Book.

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