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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Moods

reflective 100%
informative 40%
emotional 25%
funny 25%
inspiring 22%
hopeful 18%
challenging 14%
relaxing 14%
adventurous 11%
lighthearted 11%
dark 7%
sad 7%
tense 3%

Pace

slow 55%
medium 40%
fast 3%

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3.75

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