Marilynne Robinson
When I Was A Child I Read Books
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'Robinson's chief love and guiding question is humanity . . . The reason she can go on and on answering this question, and the reason it is worth reading every word, is that the answer is elusive - this great mystery of being is, for her, a source of childlike wonder and no other writer in English can write wonder like she can'Sophie Elmhirst, New StatesmanMarilynne Robinson, internationally acclaimed author of Housekeeping, Gilead and Home, is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection, she returns to the themes that are central to her bestselling novels…
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'Robinson's chief love and guiding question is humanity . . . The reason she can go on and on answering this question, and the reason it is worth reading every word, is that the answer is elusive - this great mystery of being is, for her, a source of childlike wonder and no other writer in English can write wonder like she can'Sophie Elmhirst, New StatesmanMarilynne Robinson, internationally acclaimed author of Housekeeping, Gilead and Home, is not only a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this luminous new collection, she returns to the themes that are central to her bestselling novels: the place literature has in life, the role of faith, the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed, eloquent and profoundly insightful, with these essays Robinson demonstrates once again why she is one of our best-loved writers.'Like Wollstonecraft, Robinson's intellect is threatening. And if it can threaten us into action, is all the greater for that'Lesley McDowell, Independent on Sunday'Rich, uncompromising essays . . . their rewards should be for anyone, of any faith'Emily Stokes, Financial Times'Robinson flexes her considerable academic muscle . . . In a world that too often dumbs down, Robinson is to be celebrated for her rigorous erudition'Helen Davies, Sunday Times
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Produktdetails
- ISBN: 978-1-84408-772-3
- EAN: 9781844087723
- Produktnummer: 13701051
- Verlag: Little, Brown Book Group
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2013
- Seitenangabe: 224 S.
- Masse: H19.8 cm x B12.6 cm x D2.0 cm 181 g
- Gewicht: 181
Über den Autor
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 also won the Pulitzer Prize for fiction.
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