{"product_id":"for-the-time-being-by-annie-dillard-9780375703478","title":"For the Time Being","description":"\u003cdiv class=\"book-description\"\u003e\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eNational Bestseller.\u003c\/em\u003e From the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cem\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/em\u003e and one of the most compelling writers of our time comes a \"beautifully written and delightfully strange\" (Daily News) narrative that renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest—and often darkest—corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\u003cem\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/em\u003e is Annie Dillard's most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard asks: Why do we exist? Where did we come from? How can one person matter? Dillard searches for answers in a powerful array of images—pictures of bird-headed dwarfs in the standard reference of human birth defects; ten thousand terra-cotta figures fashioned for a Chinese emperor in place of the human court that might have followed him into death; the paleontologist and theologian Teilhard de Chardin crossing the Gobi Desert; the dizzying variety of clouds.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003eVivid, eloquent, haunting, \u003cem\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/em\u003e evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener.\" - \u003cem\u003eDaily News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\n\u003cp\u003e\"Stimulating, humbling, original. Dillard illuminates the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it.\" - \u003cem\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/em\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\n\u003c\/div\u003e","brand":"Penguin Random House NZ","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47828818034924,"sku":"9780375703478","price":50.0,"currency_code":"NZD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0705\/7784\/8556\/files\/9780375703478-for-the-time-being.jpg?v=1782446189","url":"https:\/\/bookhero.co.nz\/products\/for-the-time-being-by-annie-dillard-9780375703478","provider":"Book Hero","version":"1.0","type":"link"}