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When I Was a Child I Read Books

When I Was a Child I Read Books

Essays

by Marilynne Robinson
CD-Audio
Publication Date: 05/05/2014

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A New York Times Book Review Editors' Choice
A New York Times Bestseller
A New York Magazine Best Book of the Year
An Economist Best Book of the Year
Pulitzer Prize-Winning Author of Gilead

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist.

In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.

In Austerity as Ideology, she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our financial troubles so challenging. In Open Thy Hand Wide she searches out the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith. And in When I Was a Child, one of her most personal essays to date, an account of her childhood in Idaho becomes an exploration of individualism and the myth of the American West. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as one of our essential writers.
ISBN:
9781427252135
9781427252135
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
CD-Audio
Publication Date:
05-05-2014
Language:
English
Publisher:
MacMillan Audio
Country of origin:
United States
Dimensions (mm):
150x130x28mm
Weight:
0.24kg
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson was born in 1947.

Her first novel, Housekeeping (1981) received the PEN/Hemingway award for best first novel as well as being nominated for the Pulitzer Prize.

Gilead won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, and Home won the Orange Prize. She lives in Iowa.

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