{"product_id":"9780375703478","title":"For the Time Being","description":"\u003cp\u003eNational Bestseller\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Beautifully written and delightfully strange...as earthy as it is sublime...in the truest sense, an eye-opener.\" —\u003ci\u003eDaily News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eFrom Annie Dillard, the Pulitzer Prize-winning author of \u003cb\u003ePilgrim at Tinker Creek\u003c\/b\u003e and one of the most compelling writers of our time, comes \u003cb\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/b\u003e, her most profound narrative to date. With her keen eye, penchant for paradox, and yearning for truth, Dillard renews our ability to discover wonder in life's smallest—and often darkest—corners.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003eWhy 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. Vivid, eloquent, haunting, \u003cb\u003eFor the Time Being\u003c\/b\u003e evokes no less than the terrifying grandeur of all that remains tantalizingly and troublingly beyond our understanding.\u003c\/p\u003e\u003cp\u003e\"Stimulating, humbling, original—. [Dillard] illuminate[s] the human perspective of the world, past, present and future, and the individual's relatively inconsequential but ever so unique place in it.\"—\u003ci\u003eRocky Mountain News\u003c\/i\u003e\u003c\/p\u003e","brand":"Knopf Doubleday Publishing Group","offers":[{"title":"Default Title","offer_id":47024986685680,"sku":"9780375703478","price":15.95,"currency_code":"USD","in_stock":true}],"thumbnail_url":"\/\/cdn.shopify.com\/s\/files\/1\/0737\/7593\/9824\/files\/9780375703478_p0.jpg?v=1769916149","url":"https:\/\/shop-qa.barnesandnoble.com\/products\/9780375703478","provider":"Barnes \u0026 Noble (DEV)","version":"1.0","type":"link"}