What are We Doing Here?
`An intellectual autobiography - a starchy, ardent and, on occasion, surprisingly personal account of what it means to be the custodian of one's conscience in a world saturated with orthodoxies.In other words, it's a passionate treatment of one of Robinson's longtime preoccupations. A dying reverend instructs his young son in Gilead, her Pulitzer Prize-winning novel: The Lord gave you a mind so that you would make honest use of it. I'm saying you must be sure that the doubts and questions are your own not, so to speak, the moustache and walking stick that happen to be the fashion of any particular moment. [Here is] a repudiation... of power…
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- ISBN: 978-0-349-01044-1
- EAN: 9780349010441
- Produktnummer: 26312988
- Verlag: Little, Brown and Company
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 2019
- Seitenangabe: 336 S.
- Ausstattung: B-Format Paperback
- Masse: H19.9 cm x B12.8 cm x D2.5 cm 274 g
- Gewicht: 274
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Marilynne Robinson is the winner of the Pulitzer Prize for fiction, the National Book Critics Circle Award, the Women's Prize for Fiction and she has twice been nominated for the International Booker Prize. In 2013 she was awarded the National Humanities Medal by President Obama. She lives in Iowa.
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