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When I was a child I read books

When I was a child I read books

EssaysPhilosophy & Religion
Pages
224
Published
2012
Language
English

Synopsis

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.

Prose complexity
7/10

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Genres

Essays Philosophy & Religion Politics & Society Philosophy

About the author

M
Marilynne Robinson

Marilynne Robinson (born November 26, 1943, in Sandpoint, Idaho) is an American novelist and essayist. Her novels include Housekeeping (1980) and Gilead (2004), winner of the Pulitzer Prize for Fiction, along with its related novels Home (2008), Lila (2014) and Jack (2020). She taught at the Iowa Writers' Workshop from 1991 until her retirement in 2016 and received the National Humanities Medal in 2012.