There is less tugging at the rare insight, the wild surmise, as in, say, Dillard's Teaching the Stone to Talk (1982), and this bright, imaginative whack through the "overgrown path" back to the past is more accessible to the general reader. Dillard's headlong immersion into the mysteries of the natural world-from bedrocks to the heavens, and flora and fauna (from amoebas to us)-places this childhood memoir of life with a companionable family in Pittsburgh's elite enclave in the 50's and 60's.
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