When I Was a Child I Read Books Essays Author:Marilynne Robinson Since the 1981 publication of Marilynne Robinson?s novel, Housekeeping?a stunning debut that was nominated for the Pulitzer Prize?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. Her compelling and demanding collection The Death of Adam?in which she refl... more »ected on her Presbyterian upbringing, investigated the roots of Midwestern abolitionism, and mounted a memorable defense of Calvinism?is respected as a classic of the genre, praised by Doris Lessing as ?a useful antidote to the increasingly crude and slogan-loving culture we inhabit.? 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, 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.« less
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