Full name: When I Was a Child I Read Books: Essays

Author: Marilynne Robinson Rank: Rating: Original Rating: Pop Rating: Genres/categories: Non Fiction, Essays, Religion, Short Stories, Philosophy Purchase/reserch links: Goodreads Barns&Noble Amazon eBooks.com LibraryThing ISBNs: 9780374298784 9781250024053 0374298785 1250024056

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 reflected 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. Similar books: Books v. Cigarettes by George Orwell At the Same Time by Susan Sontag On Looking by Lia Purpura Vintage Didion by Joan Didion In Favor of the Sensitive Man by Anais Nin Farther Away by Jonathan Franzen In Praise of Messy Lives by Katie Roiphe Loitering by Charles D'Ambrosio The End of the End of the Earth by Jonathan Franzen Broken Vessels by Andre Dubus Nobody's Looking at You by Janet Malcolm The Way the World Works by Nicholson Baker The Rub of Time by Martin Amis The Patch by John McPhee Feel Free by Zadie Smith The Givenness of Things by Marilynne Robinson What Are We Doing Here? by Marilynne Robinson The Death of Adam by Marilynne Robinson For the Time Being by Annie Dillard