"One of the most distinctive voices in American letters today." -The Boston Globe
"Lush, warm, open-hearted… There is a king of genius in Annie Dillard's language and imagery." -Chicago Tribune Books
"Annie Dillard is one of those people who seems to be more fully alive than most of us, more nearly wide awake than human beings generally get to be." -The New York Times
"Every paragraph Dillard writes is full of information, presenting the mundane with inventive freshness and offering the exotic surprises as dessert... Annie Dillard is one of nature's prize wonders herself-an example of sentient Homo sapiens pushing the limits of the creative imagination." -St. Louis Post-Dispatch