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The Givenness of Things

The Givenness of Things

Essays

by Marilynne Robinson
Hardback
Publication Date: 27/10/2015

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Robinson has plumbed the depths of the human spirit in her trilogy of novels - Pulitzer Prize-winning Gilead, Orange-Prize winning Homeand National Book Critics Circle Award-winning Lila -and in her moving essay collection When I Was a Child I Read Books.Now, in THE GIVENNESS OF THINGS, she brings a profound sense of awe and an incisive mind to the essential questions of contemporary life and faith. Through fourteen essays of remarkable depth and insight, Robinson explores the dilemmas of our modern predicament. How has our so-called Christian nation strayed from so many of the teachings of Christ? How could the great minds of the past, Calvin and Locke-and Shakespeare-guide our lives? And what might the world look like if we could see the sacredness in each other? Exquisite and bold, these essays are a necessary call for us to find wisdom and guidance in our cultural treasures, to seek humanity and compassion in each other. THE GIVENNESS OF THINGSis a reminder of what a marvel our existence is in its grandeur-and its humility.
ISBN:
9780349007311
9780349007311
Category:
Literary essays
Format:
Hardback
Publication Date:
27-10-2015
Publisher:
Little, Brown Book Group Limited
Country of origin:
United Kingdom
Dimensions (mm):
222x141x27mm
Weight:
0.52kg
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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