A GOD'S-EYE VIEW.(Review)

Commonweal | September 10, 1999| | Copyright

 
For the Time Being 
 
Annie Dillard 
 
Knopf, $22, 204 pp.

In 1982, Annie Dillard found herself, as part of a tour group in China, standing above the excavation site of thousands of life-sized clay soldiers, modeled individually on each member of the imperial army and buried twenty-two hundred years ago. "I saw what looked like human bodies coming out of the earth," she writes. "The earth was yielding these bodies...; it grew and bore them. The clay people were earth itself, only shaped. The hazards of time had suspended their bodies in the act of pressing out into ...

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