An American Childhood by Annie Dillard

An American Childhood

Annie Dillard

255 pages first pub 1987 (editions)

nonfiction biography memoir reflective slow-paced

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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 yello...

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reflective 100%
informative 40%
emotional 30%
funny 30%
hopeful 25%
inspiring 25%
challenging 20%
adventurous 10%
dark 10%
lighthearted 10%
relaxing 10%
sad 10%
tense 5%

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medium 30%
fast 5%

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