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When I was a child I read books : essays

A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, Gilead, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her compelling and demanding collection The Death of Adam'in which she reflects upon her Presbyterian upbringing, investigates the roots of Midwestern abolitionism and mounts a memorable defence of Calvinism'is respected as a classic of the genre, and praised by Doris Lessing as "a useful antidote to the increasingly crude and slogan-loving culture we inhabit." In When I Was a Child I Read Books, Robinson returns to and expands upon the themes that have preoccupied her work with renewed vigour. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis and the charged political and social climate in America that makes finding a solution to the country's 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 North America's essential writers.

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  • "Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson's novel, Housekeeping, she has built a sterling reputation not only as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In this new collection she returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, and the contradictions inherent in human nature. Clear-eyed and forceful as ever, Robinson demonstrates once again why she is regarded as a modern rhetorical master."
  • "A NATIONAL BESTSELLER Ever since the 1981 publication of her stunning debut, Housekeeping, Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist (her second novel, Gilead, was awarded the Pulitzer Prize), but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. Her compelling and demanding collection The Death of Adam'in which she reflects upon her Presbyterian upbringing, investigates the roots of Midwestern abolitionism and mounts a memorable defence of Calvinism'is respected as a classic of the genre, and praised by Doris Lessing as "a useful antidote to the increasingly crude and slogan-loving culture we inhabit." In When I Was a Child I Read Books, Robinson returns to and expands upon the themes that have preoccupied her work with renewed vigour. In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis and the charged political and social climate in America that makes finding a solution to the country's 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 North America's essential writers."@en
  • "In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature."@en
  • "In this new collection of incisive essays, Robinson returns to the themes which have preoccupied her work: the role of faith in modern life, the inadequacy of fact, the contradictions inherent in human nature."
  • "Presents ten essays by the American writer Marilynne Robinson."@en
  • ""In this lucid but impassioned collection, Robinson expands with renewed vigor the themes that have preoccupied her work. When I Was a Child I Read Books tackles the charged political and social climate in this country, the deeply embedded role of generosity in Christian faith, and the nature 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." -- Publisher's description."@en
  • "'As a writer I continuously attempt to make inroads on the vast terrian of what cannot be said - or said by me, at least. I seem to know by intuition a great deal that I cannot find words for.The frontiers of the unsayable have been opened for me by every book I have ever read that was in any degree ambitios, earnest or imaginative, by every good teacher I have had; by music and apinting;by conversation that was in any way interesting, even conversation overheard as it passed between strangers.'"
  • "'As a writer I continuously attempt to make inroads on the vast terrian of what cannot be said - or said by me, at least. I seem to know by intuition a great deal that I cannot find words for.The frontiers of the unsayable have been opened for me by every book I have ever read that was in any degree ambitios, earnest or imaginative, by every good teacher I have had; by music and apinting;by conversation that was in any way interesting, even conversation overheard as it passed between strangers.'."

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