Mother Country
In this powerful, eloquent, and elucidating essay, Marilynne Robinson has pinpointed exactly the motives and the mythology and the reality behind the destruction of our planet. The Sellafield nuclear reprocessing plant in Great Britain is a perfect metaphor for twentieth-century genocide. Not the small, insane eruptions of eradication that took place in Hitler's Germany, but rather that routine, day-to-day, thoroughly democratic envenomation of the planet by a current industrial magic (encouraged, or at least condoned, by almost everybody), which threatens to terminate everything on earth in the quite foreseeable future.Robinson's book is as…
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- ISBN: 978-0-374-52659-7
- EAN: 9780374526597
- Produktnummer: 9350201
- Verlag: Farrar, Strauss & Giroux-3PL
- Sprache: Englisch
- Erscheinungsjahr: 1989
- Seitenangabe: 272 S.
- Masse: H21.6 cm x B14.0 cm x D1.6 cm 367 g
- Abbildungen: Paperback
- Gewicht: 367
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