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OverviewFull Product DetailsAuthor: Marilynne RobinsonPublisher: Little, Brown Book Group Imprint: Virago Press Ltd Dimensions: Width: 12.80cm , Height: 2.40cm , Length: 19.60cm Weight: 0.260kg ISBN: 9780349010441ISBN 10: 0349010447 Pages: 336 Publication Date: 07 March 2019 Audience: General/trade , General Format: Paperback Publisher's Status: Active Availability: In stock We have confirmation that this item is in stock with the supplier. It will be ordered in for you and dispatched immediately. Table of ContentsReviewsThere is much rich matter in these essays. They are simultaneously challenging, disturbing and rewarding * Catholic Herald * A bracing, stringent book that continually challenges the reader * Telegraph * Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty . The argument is sophisticated and persuasive * Guardian * Grace and intelligence . . . [her work] defines universal truths about what it means to be human Robinson urges her audience to stand by what makes us human - creative, knowing, efficacious, deeply capable of loyalty . The argument is sophisticated and persuasive - Guardian A bracing, stringent book that continually challenges the reader - Telegraph Author InformationMarilynne Robinson is the author of Gilead, winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction and the National Book Critics Circle Award; Home, winner of the Orange Prize and the Los Angeles Times Book Prize; Lila, winner of the National Book Critics Circle Award; and Jack, a New York Times bestseller. Her first novel, Housekeeping, won the PEN/Hemingway Award. Robinson's non-fiction books include The Givenness of Things, When I Was a Child I Read Books, Absence of Mind, The Death of Adam, and Mother Country. She is the recipient of a 2012 National Humanities Medal, awarded by President Barack Obama, for 'her grace and intelligence in writing.' Robinson lives in Iowa City, Iowa. Tab Content 6Author Website:Countries AvailableAll regions |