When I Was a Child I Read Books - Rilegato

Robinson, Marilynne

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ISBN 10: 0374298785 ISBN 13: 9780374298784

Casa editrice: Farrar Straus & Giroux, 2012

Riassunto

Marilynne Robinson has built a sterling reputation as a writer of sharp, subtly moving prose, not only as a major American novelist, but also as a rigorous thinker and incisive essayist. In When I Was a Child I Read Books she returns to and expands upon the themes which have preoccupied her work with renewed vigor.

In "Austerity as Ideology," she tackles the global debt crisis, and the charged political and social political climate in this country that makes finding a solution to our 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 our essential writers.

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L'autore

Marilynne Robinson is the author of the novels Housekeeping (FSG, 1981), Gilead (FSG, 2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize, and Home (FSG, 2008), and three books of nonfiction, Mother Country (FSG, 1989), The Death of Adam (1998) and Absence of Mind (2010). She teaches at the University of Iowa Writers' Workshop.

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Book by Robinson Marilynne

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• Editore: Farrar Straus & Giroux
• Data di pubblicazione: 2012
• ISBN 10: 0374298785
• ISBN 13: 9780374298784
• Rilegatura: Copertina rigida
• Numero di pagine: 206