THE LIVING

Annie Dillard’s first novel celebrates grace in nature, life in death, and the present in the past. Dozens of characters appear and disappear in this novel whose only enduring character seems to be the town of Whatcom on Washington’s Bellingham Bay. Alert to Dillard’s richly alliterative prose, Cassidy’s reading is perfectly paced and sparkles with the author’s delight in the living. P.E.F. ©AudioFile, Portland, Maine [Published: AUG 94]